Toward a Philosophy of Popular Music
Abstract
Is there a "philosophy of popular music"? And, if it doesn't exist yet, is it possible it will exist in the future? For this to happen, we need to go a step further than sociology and aesthetics. A philosophy of music is not the same as an aesthetics of music. Likewise, a philosophy of popular music must grapple with a subject whose vastness cannot be conceptualized with theories that apply to historically stratified forms or the rules that determine various musical genres. Popular music is a planetary experiment, where the term "planet" must be distinguished from the term "world." The world can be owned, but the planet cannot be owned. Similarly, popular music must be distinguished from celebrity music. Celebrities own their music, while popular music, even if it is bound by market rules, is “owned” by no one. Its categories, necessarily unconventional, are the Mouth, the Throat, the Kernel of the Real, the Weaving of the Carpet, and Planetarity.
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