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“A sort of musical children’s language is
prepared for them; it differs from the real thing in that its vocabulary
consists exclusively of fragments and distortions of the artistic language of
music.” (51)
“Even mechanical control of the music is
no longer expected.” (37)
In
“On the Fetish Character on Music and the Regression of Listening”, Adorno uses
terms throughout, such as “childish”, “child-like”, “elementary”, and
“retarded.” These terms seem to be aligned with music that is underdeveloped
and undeveloped. Underdeveloped or undeveloped music must rely on another
source for success—technology.
The
second quote reminds me of modern technology such as synthesizers,
lip-synching, voice enhancement devices, etc. Secondly, music is now
compartmentalized into several different roles: songwriter, producer, guitar
player, and singer—where at one time, just one individual executed these tasks.
Most mainstream and popular music such as pop and hip-hop artists rarely write
or perform the music themselves. Yet, this is the music that the masses follow.
Most contain catchy tunes that easily get stuck in the listener’s head whether
or not one is concentrating on it or even listening to it. Also, most “artists” are easily forgotten and
are popular for a very short period of time maybe producing one or two “successful”
albums. This type of non-creative and non-artistic (in my opinion) seemed to
proliferate in a larger scale once technology became more innovative. In a
sense, technology replaced the musician and this leads to degradation of
quality in music. Conclusively, deterioration in music quality subsumes
regressive listening.
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