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Philosophy and Pop Music


Philosophy and Pop Music - Blog of the APA

A book that explains the primary branches of (and debates in) philosophy using the language of pop music.

Aesthetics of Popular Music, The | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Second, popular music increasingly serves as a focal point in general debates about art and aesthetic value. A growing number of philosophers regard popular ...

Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop | Issue 3 | n+1 | Mark Greif

Songs are what we consume in greatest quantity; they're what we store most of in our heads. But even as we can insist on the seriousness of value of pop music, ...

Philosophy References in Pop Music - Daily Nous

Checking out Poison Season by Destroyer this past weekend I came across the following lyric in "Sun in the Sky": Tender is the night That ...

The aesthetics and ethics of objectionable lyrics in pop music - Reddit

I think it's surprising that so little attention was given to the distinction between songs which are offensive because they reflect a complacency with ...

Philosophical Music - The Pop Culture Philosopher

It's a visit to the lighter side of philosophy in popular culture this week with a look at the recent “Epic Rap Battle” production.

POP CULTURE: Pop and Philosophy - YouTube

Pop music and philosophy would seem, at first glance, to have little to say to one another. But in fact the latter has a lot to learn from ...

Do you know any music that has good philosophical content ... - Reddit

Comments Section · "No Church in the Wild" by Jay Z and Kanye West (feat. · "Walk with Me" by Joe Budden explores how human interactions are ...

Is pop music bad for your soul? - Philosophy for Life

Pop music has basically deformed the soul of western culture since the 1950s. He similarly found a mass appeal by dismissing mass culture in unconsidered ...

The existential philosophy behind "People are the Same Everywhere"

The existential philosophy behind "People are the Same Everywhere" - Pop Music Explained ... People Are The Same Everywhere is a song I find ...

Why Philosophy Should Become More Like Pop Music

We publish articles around emotional education: calm, fulfilment, perspective and self-awareness. | Why Philosophy Should Become More Like Pop Music — Read ...

Philosophy and Pop Harmonize on Scritti Politti's 'Songs to Remember'

In Scritti Politti's Songs to Remember, Green Gartside comically challenges hegemonic structures in a perfect harmony of philosophy and pop.

Dialectic of Pop - MIT Press

Inseparable from the materiality of its technical media, indifferent and intractable to the perspectives of high culture, pop subverts notions of authenticity ...

Is Pop Music Art? Theodor Adorno and the War on Modern Music

In his famous paper 'On Popular Music', Adorno wanted to emphasise the dull nature of the verse-bridge-chorus structure of songs. This meant ...

Three strange takes on the philosophy of music - Big Think

Adorno is infamous for associating all jazz with his notions of “popular music.” He dismissed both the genre and its defenders. For example, he ...

Why Philosophy Should Become More Like Pop Music

Pop teaches us too about compression. It knows our lives are busy and has an extraordinarily ambitious sense of what could be achieved in under ...

On a Philosophy of Pop Music | Arts - The Harvard Crimson

An informed and active interest in music demands that we constantly push our boundaries, exposing ourselves to these diverse voices, which ...

POP CULTURE: Pop and Philosophy - Chatterbug

tantalising assertion that "all art aspires to the condition of music". ... Like religion, pop knows that repetition is key. ... It works its effect ...

Music and Personal Association | Issue 1 - Philosophy Now

Both pop and classical music are assumed to be kinds of music. In order to probe such an assumption, we need a concept of what music is. Opinions vary as to how ...

The Dialectic of Pop - ArtReview

Three books by European critical theorists seek to formulate a philosophy of pop music, by way of Rihanna, Fatima Al Qadiri and Kraftwerk.