I don't know of anything specific to electronic music, but Middleton's book
(ref. below) provides some ammunition for a defence of music which does not
have the institutionalised status as <ahem> Proper Music that is the
preserve of the Functional Harmonic Classical canon (and later Serialism).
For example, in defending 'popular' music (not just 'pop', btw) against the
lofty ideological polemical stance of the likes of Theodor Adorno and other
such elitist proponents of 'non-distracted' listening, Middleton occupies
some ground for the claim to serious consideration of popular music forms.
I don't wish to suggest that IDM and Ambient etc are popular forms in our
everyday understanding of the term, but they would probably be considered
by most as belonging more in this paradigm than in a classical/serialist
one. I'd say that this book contains useful insights that could be co-opted
into service for an electronic music 'defence' (an analysis of the
semiotics of repetition, for one). However, it all depends on what you mean
by 'electronic music' anyway. It appears to me that you might have
something of Wormy Kettle Opening there when it comes to defining the
object of study, since 'electronic music' doesn't reside within a neat
ambit, but sprawls messily across all kinds of areas from e.g. anti- to
ambient and pop to noise and so on, from mmmmm... Marclay to Marumari and
Madonna to Masonna.
alan
Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open
University Press. ISBN 0335152759.
--On 26 April 2005 23:55 -0700 Evan Caron <e23thug@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 19 lines So, I'm in the process of writing a research paper on
> So, I'm in the process of writing a research paper on
> defending electronic music as a true form of music. I
> guess I was just wondering if anyone on here knows of
> any information on defending or enhancing this topic.
> I have posted on other forums and such but have only
> come up with the same things. Thanks for any info you
> can give. Cheers!
>
> Evan
>
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