Pervasive music extends political domination by breaking down individual resistance
Evidence
Bergman argues that ‘[a]rt becomes the extension of politics, as the system of domination mechanizes its control; not even the most argus-eyed cop-on-the-block could compete with the omnipresence of music, the most romantic of arts’, which tends to obliterate communication and to break down individual resistance, constructing instead the beautiful illusion of a collective, singing along in dictatorial unanimity. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 571
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Sound power constitutes a form of imperialistic acoustic domination — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267; Capitalist commodification of music causes listeners’ hearing to regress psychologically to infantile passivity. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 578; Political power grows as domination merges into everyday leisure and consumption — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 418 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Sound power constitutes a form of imperialistic acoustic domination
#expands(0.80) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267 - Political power grows as domination merges into everyday leisure and consumption
#expands(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 418 - Capitalist commodification of music causes listeners’ hearing to regress psychologically to infantile passivity.
#complicates(0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 578