Dialectic of Pop 1 (Part 1 Ch 1: Pop)

Part 1 introduces the idea of pop as a musical form, extending over many genres and porous to all influences. As an aesthetic form, it is characterised by its constitutive relation to recording and the possibilities of recording technology (a pop work is always a recorded work), its appeal to a ‘utopia of popularity’, and a constant recycling of the pop canon. One of a series of playlists to accompany Agnès Gayraud’s book Dialectic of Pop, published by Urbanomic (https://www.urbanomic.com/book/dialec...)