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Bopping brilliant

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Every musical genre has its canon: Bach and Mozart for classical, Armstrong and Parker for jazz, Dylan and the Beatles for rock, Biggie and Tupac for hip-hop. Only pop music-the "bubble gum" or "teeny-bop" tunes played on nightclub dance floors and Top 40 radio-lacks similar critical analysis and acclaim. True, Michael Jackson has been given his due. But it took an early death for the public to value his contributions fully. And no one would mention today's "manufactured" stars, such as Katy Perry (pictured) or Miley Cyrus, in the same breath as the King of Pop. John Seabrook takes another tack. "The Song Machine", a history of the past 20 years of pop music, takes for granted two assumptions, both convincingly demonstrate d via a highly engaging narrative. The most basic is that modern "earworm" pop is a high art form, as worthy of appreciation as any other: he calls Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" "magnificent", for example, and the "hooks" (catchy, repeated snippets of melody) in Rihanna's "Umbrella" are "wonderful" and "lovely". The second is that the public unfairly dismisses such masterpieces, because its expectations of the creative process were set during the rock 'n' roll era, when singer-songwriters were the norm. In fact, the 1960s and 1970s were a historical aberration, and what may seem like a soulless new wave of industrial music production is a return to the "hit factories" of years gone by.
机译:每一种音乐流派都有其经典:古典音乐包括巴赫(Bach)和莫扎特(Mozart),爵士音乐是阿姆斯特朗(Armstrong)和帕克(Parker),摇滚音乐是迪伦和披头士乐队(Beatles),嘻哈音乐是Biggie和Tupac。只有流行音乐-夜总会舞池上播放的“泡泡糖”或“青少年流行”音乐和类似的批评分析和赞誉在前40名广播电台中缺失。没错,迈克尔·杰克逊(Michael Jackson)得到了应得的。但是公众早就去世了,要充分重视他的贡献。没有人会像流行音乐之王一样提及今天的“人造”明星,例如凯蒂·佩里(Katy Perry)(如图)或麦莉·赛勒斯(Miley Cyrus)。约翰·西布鲁克(John Seabrook)采取了另一种策略。 “歌曲机器”是流行音乐过去20年的历史,理所当然地假设了两个假设,两个假设都通过高度引人入胜的叙述令人信服地展示出来。最基本的是,现代的“ ear虫”流行音乐是一种高级艺术形式,与其他形式一样值得赞赏:例如,他称凯利·克拉克森的《自从消失了》为“宏伟”,而“呼声”则为(吸引人,重复蕾哈娜(Rihanna)的“雨伞”片段中的旋律片段是“精彩”和“可爱”。第二个原因是公众不公平地拒绝了这些杰作,因为它对创作过程的期望是在摇滚时代,即歌手和作曲家为准则的。实际上,1960年代和1970年代是历史性的畸变,看似毫无生气的工业音乐生产新潮流是对过去的“热门工厂”的回归。

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    《The economist》 |2015年第8964期|77-78|共2页
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