{"id":2196,"date":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/a-defence-of-disco-exploring-the-power-and-value-of-disco-with-reference-to-adornos-theories-of-music-and-the-culture-industry\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"a-defence-of-disco-exploring-the-power-and-value-of-disco-with-reference-to-adornos-theories-of-music-and-the-culture-industry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2017\/01\/12\/a-defence-of-disco-exploring-the-power-and-value-of-disco-with-reference-to-adornos-theories-of-music-and-the-culture-industry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Defence of Disco: exploring the power and value of disco with reference to Adorno&#8217;s theories of music and the Culture Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The values of disco are often seen to tie neatly into consumerist culture and represent a false, materialistic and escapist attitude to life. In this project, I seek to provide a defence for a genre that had significant power and value for marginalised communities. <\/p>\n<p>I will be referencing texts that discuss popular music and popular culture, focusing on Theodor Adorno, Richard Middleton and Simon Reynolds predominantly,  in order to assess how a musical movement can be valued, what disco music can tell us about ourselves, and whether disco music should be taken seriously as a musical genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Helen Francis, 2017, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,22,123],"tags":[72,293,97],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-251","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-adorno","tag-middleton","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}