Popular music

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani distinguishes two opposed senses of the expression. In the sense he adopts, "popular from below", popular music is the expression of a particular people, of a here and now, and grows from a particular soil, like a plant12. In the other sense, "popular from above", it is a refrain manufactured to be listened to by many: "people" music or pop music, which was made to break popular musics and which has levelled their diversity34. This is why he speaks of popular musics in the plural, as differentiated as cultures are, against a "people" music in the singular5. He takes the example of the blues, born of the slave singing the C scale out of tune with his own modalities, and calls jazz the most learned of popular musics6. In his view, learned music does not do away with popular music: it uses it, deepens it and enriches it while staying in tune with the popular ear78. He attributes the present split between the two to capital, which has no interest in passing on the musical heritage9.

1. 1#5 Libéralisme-libertaire, consommation libidinale et musique...27 Sept 2014 · 23:42
2. 2Discussion entre Aliocha Allard et Dominique Pagani, 29 Mars 201726 Feb 2019 · 0:22
3. 3Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 27 Jul 2012 · 27:21
4. 4Musicosophie 4. Les ghettos sonores3 Dec 2020 · 59:14
5. 5Musicosophie 4. Les ghettos sonores3 Dec 2020 · 1:49
6. 6Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 27 Jul 2012 · 29:01
7. 7B comme Bach16 Dec 2014 · 9:47
8. 8#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 0:42
9. 9#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 13:09

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