Global Forms of Popular Music Production
«Global forms of popular music production and consumption – such as those typical of World Music – tend to replicate colonial thinking by positioning non-Western musics as Others to be discovered, and by understanding such discovery as an expression of agency on the part of the music consumer.»
This quote is taken from the article «Musical Discovery, Colonialism, and the Possibilities of Intercultural Communication» published 2016 in «Popular Communication». Last accessed on November 26, 2020.
Biography
Published on June 25, 2016
Last updated on June 27, 2022
Topics
From Beyoncés colonial stagings in mainstream pop to the ethical problems of Western people «documenting» non-Western cultures.
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