Aesthetics of Pop Music

by Diedrich Diederichsen

Book Overview

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural systems, of which music is only a part. Its own logic of attraction is based less on compositions and the expression of subjectivity and more on indexicality, real or pseudo-involuntary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509552030
• ISBN13: 9781509552030
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.2"