Through this project I will be discussing how the genre of Intelligent Dance music can be perceived as a postmodern genre. I will show this through separating IDM into three categorise; history, sound and culture and through these analysing each through the lens of postmodernity. To define postmodernity I will be using Vattimo and his writing on the end of history with the use of Fisher to gain closer insight to the effects of postmodernity on 21st Culture. IDM offers an interesting opportunity for the visualisation of postmodernity through music, with its very backbone portraying clear characteristics of the postmodern.
Tag: Fisher
Aims
To gain an understanding of how largely capitalist organizations, such as Apple, Sony BMG and Warner are slowly eliminating the competition – smaller independent record labels and stores and alienating the musician from their art
To investigate whether the use of free illegal downloading and file sharing websites can ever be justified in the current economic climate?
To decide whether or not we should care about the demise of the record industry and whether music is a good that is worth saving?
Thinkers + Texts
Mark Fisher— Capitalist Realism
Immanuel Kant—Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals
Karl Marx—Capital
Arthur Schopenhauer—The World and Will as Representation
“It is easier to imagine a total catastrophe which ends all life on earth than it is to imagine a real change in capitalist relations” (Zizek, 334: 2011)
“We could just as well call the world embodied music as embodied will; this is the reason why music makes every picture, indeed every scene from real life and from the world, at once appear in enhanced significance” (Schopenhauer, 262-263: 1969)