Dialectic of Pop 6 (Part 2 Ch 4: Pop and Progress)

Does the modernist paradigm of ‘progress’ really apply to an art form unwilling to seclude itself in a progressive but unappreciated underground? How can there be progress when its constant appeal to novelty is combined with continual rehashes of past hits and sounds, neomania with retromania? Exactly what kind of temporality prevails in the pop form? One of a series of playlists to accompany Agnès Gayraud’s book Dialectic of Pop, published by Urbanomic (https://www.urbanomic.com/book/dialec...)