La música en el marco del análisis de la cultura contemporánea: un replanteamiento teórico y metodológico

Abstract

Based both on recent empirical data from Spain and the results of proper investigations on music as a sociocultural phenomenon, some actual trends in musical consumption, submitted to the cultural dynamics of globalisation within advanced societies, are analysed. Special attention is paid to the cultural effects of popular music in the construction of postmodern identities related with new life-styles as far as they replace those former ones of ethnic and national music. As its consequence, popular music is conceived as an active element in the cultural process, and a critical revision of sociomusicological access from the cultural perspective will be argumented and heightened in accordance with a revised reading of some of the works of Adorno, Blaukopf and others.