John Seabrook 'The intersection between creativity and commerce re: tech, design, and music’
The New Abnormal
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The Song Machine
Youf: Is there really a tectonic shift in the relations between culture and marketing, or indeed, is the mego store just another version of the culture industry? He says one can identify ine three phases of this in the twentieth century. The first was as radio spread, sound was connected to film and mechanical reproduction became pervasive. Guy de ball identified this as the formation of spectacle. And the post war perfection of a consumer capitalism, with its image world liridly exposed by war hole. Youf: In the making ofa song, all those elements are not only present, but very dramatically and sot of in a concentrated way, sort of present.
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