Blaming or Defending Disco? Analyzing the historical development of the mainstream journalistic discourse about authenticity of electronic music in Germany during the decade 1975-1984

Authors

  • Ambra Cavallaro Technische Universitat Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6874

Keywords:

music, electronic popular music, cultural industry

Abstract

By means of a critical analysis of the electronic-popular-music discourse in the German mainstream magazine Musikexpress in the decade 1975-1985, this paper traces back the historic development of journalists’assessment standards for virtuosity, authenticity and subversion in the electronic-music-age. Results show how cultural industry applies its hegemonic influence on musical discourses through media institutions and Pop/Rock intellectuals, in order to satisfy market requirements.

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Published

2016-04-01

How to Cite

Cavallaro, A. (2016). Blaming or Defending Disco? Analyzing the historical development of the mainstream journalistic discourse about authenticity of electronic music in Germany during the decade 1975-1984. Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 5(9), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6874

Issue

No. 9 (2016)

Section

Special

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