Tuesday, 6 March 2007
Is popular music art?
Some would say that art, “in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art) I agree with this statement and would say that popular music is in fact a huge expression of an individual’s creativity. Popular music I believe is a number of different genres of music and each genre and each song within a genre expresses an individual/s own creativity, therefore producing different art forms. Popular music can be seen as art because art is usually seen as something which can be enjoyed by others and popular music is a form of art which also serves this purpose. We can read other forms of art such as paintings for example the same way that we can popular music. We can look at paintings and draw up different interpretations about what the artist is trying to say or portray in the same way that we would with any given piece of music. In popular music the singer or songwriter tries to achieve this.
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This post offers a reasonable definition of art and music's place within it, which is certainly a sensible starting point for the proposed question. I However I would have hoped to have seen some mention of Adorno's suggestion of popular music as a mass produced commodity form in any discussion of it as art. In these terms the post's ability to answer the question is limited to a rather superficial and unsubstantiated attempt.
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