Dialectic of Pop
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.
In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest s...
A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.
In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest s...
