Interesting Points...
- Significant number of British pop musicians from the 1960s onward went to art schools
- Post-war pop mainly African-american sounds
- British musicians added style, image, self-conciousness
- Sociological accounts of capitalist society generally separate high art and mass culture
- Art schools crossed this boundary - petit-bourgeois who incorporate high art skills and identities to a mass cultural form
- In the division in art is the assumption that high art has meaning incorporated in it by the artist while mass culture has a function eg to make money, maintain the social order
- Mass culture perhaps is positive in its use rather than its meaning
- Apparently in Dick Hebdige's Subculture he claims popular culture is art because of its concept of style
- The star system works by making musicians responsible for their own sounds - myth of individual production is why critics often dismiss star's importance
- Notion of 'art' is constructed an maintained in social practice
- A lot of wrok goes into maintaining arts autonomy
Postmodernism
- Sense of a breakdown between cultural catergories
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