Heft 04 / Oktober 2016

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Pop Music as a »Gesamtkunstwerk«: On Diederich Diederichsen – This article is a review of Diedrich Diederichsen’s extensive study on pop music. The starting point is the observation that pop music has always been viewed in aesthetics as a difficult object of study. This review pays tribute to Diederichsen’s productive suggestion to defend pop music both from the charge of being a symptom of musical decline and from a reduction of its aesthetic particularities to the aesthetic particularities of music in the tradition of European art music. At the same time, it also argues critically that doing justice to pop music, which consists most of all in no longer treating it as a special kind of music, can only be achieved by presupposing a formalistically reduced concept of musical material.

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