music
1789-1989: Revolutionary song in France
A history of song, music and revolutionary working class politics in France from the 1789 Revolution up to the 1980s and punk.
Like
other political groups, anarchists have seen music as an excellent means of
agitation and of popular education, and have made it one of their key activities
of propaganda in many countries.
Anarchy in Milton Keynes
Colin Ward examines interlocking musical communities in Milton Keynes, as described by anthropologist Ruth Finnegan's book The Hidden Musicians: music-making in an English town. In these cultural networks Ward sees evidence of anarchist tendencies and strains in society
Opera workers to strike
Staff at the English National Opera (ENO) have voted to strike over a pay dispute. Members of the broadcasting union Bectu voted 94% in favour of strike action.
The strike ballot was held after a demand for a 5% pay rise was turned down and 2.77% was offered, and is in the context of resignations by both the chairman and artistic director of the ENO due to criticism.
Bectu said it expected technical, managerial and administrative departments to be affected.
Secure in the knowledge...
If you go down to the festival today... In a special report, Matt D enters the murky world of security.
You're sure to notice the large numbers of security guards in their various brightly coloured polo shirts and high-visibility jackets. Many festivals including Glastonbury, Reading, and the London anti racist one day free festival (Rise) employ the Glasgow based Specialised Security(sic).
On Pop Music - Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno's critical analysis of popular music in capitalist society.
Theodor W. Adorno
On Popular Music
With the assistance and collaboration of George Simpson
Culture Industry Reconsidered
Theodor W. Adorno
Culture Industry Reconsidered
The term culture industry was perhaps used for the first time in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Horkheimer and I published in Amsterdam in 1947. In our drafts we spoke of 'mass culture'. We replaced that expression with 'culture industry' in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spontaneously from the masses themselves, the contemporary form of popular art. From the latter the culture industry must be distinguished in the extreme.
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