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THE VALUE OF POPULAR MUSIC - ALISON STONE KARTO...

In this book  Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of
music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of
materiality and the body  challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect
above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music's stress on materiality gives
it aesthetic value  drawing on ideas from the post-Kantian tradition in aesthetics by Hegel 
Adorno  and others. She shows that popular music gives importance to materiality in its typical
structure: in how music of this type handles the relations between matter and form  the
relations between sounds and words  and in how it deals with rhythm  meaning  and emotional
expression. Extensive use is made of musical examples from a wide range of popular music
genres. This book is distinctive in that it defends popular music on philosophical grounds 
particularly informed by the continental tradition in philosophy.

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