Capitalism and Romantic ideology in the record business
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Stratton (0000-0001-6787-9388, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pages | 143-156 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143000001604 |
| OpenAlex | W2046392904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 6 |
Given the existing capitalist determinants on the structure of the popular music industry, the record companies, because of their economic importance, not only represent one moment in a system where the music moves from artist to audience, but also generate both the artist, as producer for the industry, and the audience, as consumer for the industry's products - and both as living facets of an ideology best described as Romantic. Romanticism, whilst lived as being in opposition to capitalist concerns founded on rationality and standardisation, in fact supports capitalism by providing both an enabling rationale for invention and a sustaining emphasis on the individual which allows cultural products to be viewed as something other than simply more commodities. The Otherness of culture in capitalist society may be viewed as the manifestation of the necessary but repressed 'irrational' qualities which bring into existence and sustain the rational, ordered structure of capitalist practice. In the record business, both the rational aspects of capitalism and the Romanticism of its Other are highlighted by virtue of the highly developed capitalist nature of the culture industry
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Culture industry · Economics · Ideology · Irrational number · Literature · Neoclassical economics · Opposition (politics · Political science · Rationality · Romance · Romanticism · Social science · Sociology · Art History and Market Analysis · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Music History and Culture
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El arte frente a la tecnología
Sample and hold
Ge mig nåt som känns
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New Technologies and the Business of Music
Mixed Blessings
The Structural Functions of Stardom in the Recording Industry
Research Note
Art versus technology
The live album or many ways of representing performance
On good girls and woke white women
Buck Owens, country music, and the struggle for discursive control
Producing Artistic Value
Engineering great moments
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2022 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |