ADHERENCE TO RESISTANCE IN THE MUSIC OF POPULAR CULTURE
Text topic: Studies
Text author: Лука Марковић и Ненад Перић
A division of cultural events to high and low, as well as differences
between the established and popular culture, are subject to a number
of interpretations of cultural theories. The right-wing critical thought
defended the “real” culture from the crude culture of the lower
social classes, while the leftists found mass culture positive for its
democratization. Thanks to the impact of the global media, position
of music occupies a high place in the hierarchy of industry and market
culture. The opposed relationship of art and popular music is being
relativized in terms of class identification. The ideology of taste, which
is also related to the possession of a larger or smaller cultural capital,
has adapted to the requirements of populism and market. Agreeing to
concessions is a kind of democratization of elite musical forms (for
example opera), and movement of various musical forms in the system
of two-way (higher / lower) and circular (from one form to another)
forms representing both resistance and compliance in mutual encounter
and permeation of classical and popular music, both in practice and
in theory. With the exception of the avant-garde “outages” in classical
music or lowest genres of folk, all other types of music (classical, jazz,
rock, pop, folk) have found some sort of balance in their relationship.
Along with the general crisis of the spirit of criticism, this certainly
contributed to value relativism, as one of the essential features of
popular culture.