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“[They are no longer by any means coming into contact with the thing itself but rather with a predissected, cliché-ridden product of the culture industry, which

• vikramkr 2y ago
  And about making clear that the proles who think they're enjoying music just because they're enjoying it aren't actually part of "culture" because they're not enjoying it in the "right" way. In a sense he's right - televised and recorded music didn't lead to people participating in his image of music culture. It created a new one that was massively more accessible, making music much more prevalent in everyday life than it ever had been, while unlocking new avenues of artistic expression unimaginable a few centuries ago. In that context his argument carries a lot of weight I think - the classical music culture was truly one that evolved for the medium of the live performance. We'd be making the same mistake he's making if we thought we were fully appreciating it through a recorded or visual medium, since in our cultural context it is easy for us to be as dismissive of the importance of the live aspect of classical music as it is for him to be dismissive of the recorded and visual aspect of televised music