Culture Industry
"Culture industry is a term coined by Theodor Adorno (1903–69) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), who argued in "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods - through film, radio and magazines – to manipulate the masses into passivity; the easy pleasures available through consumption of popular culture make people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. Adorno and Horkheimer saw this mass-produced culture as a danger to the more difficult high arts. Culture industries may cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism. True needs, in contrast, are freedom, creativity, or genuine happiness."
Wikipedia - Culture Industry
Wikipedia - Culture Industry
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Chapter 1 from Dialectic of Enlightenment - Adorno/Horkheimer
Ran Blake
Around 1994, I was fortunate enough to spend about 3 days, 8-12 hours a day in Ran Blake's studio in Boston going through his "Primacy of the Ear" method and being introduced to the concept of the Third Stream music department at New England Conservatory. Needless to say, it was an intense few days. I'm still thinking about things he said and trying to put things into practice that he introduced me to.
Ran Blake's Official Website
Ran Blake on Wiki
WBUR Interview - Ran Blake
Interview-audio
Third Stream Music
Charlle Haden on NPR
Interview on "Ramblin' Boy" (text)
Audio Interview
Interview on Democracy Now
Text/Video/Audio/MP3
"I’ve been so lucky to play with great musicians, most of whom I wanted to play with and I sought out when I was in my younger stages, and, you know, I wouldn’t do anything different, except I would seek out as many musicians to life the way I am and dedicated to beauty the way I am, because it’s not really about categories, like jazz, it’s about beautiful music and playing music from all over the world with other musicians who are dedicated, because it’s up to us to bring beauty back into this world. It’s up to people in the arts, the painters, the writers, the composers, the dance troupes, everybody, the actors, the people who write poetry. You know, it’s up to us to try to make a difference in this world and try to make this planet a better to live for all the human beings and stop the cruelty and the devastation that’s going on, you know, and have a great place."
Charlie Haden - Democracy Now Interview September 01, 2006
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