Bad Taste Music

A collection of prompts and thoughts for a research paper on music sociology and the aesthetics of bad taste.
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Is it possible to ‘objectively’ judge music? We asked 5 experts
Is it possible to ‘objectively’ judge music? We asked 5 experts
Kitsch: Art or Not? | Art Terms | LittleArtTalks
The Meaning of Kitsch in Art | Art Terms | LittleArtTalks
Why do we feel the need to apologise for mainstream tastes?
Tom Shone: A reissue of a 2007 book on bad taste raises valid questions about why we embrace 'subversive' entertainment
A Review of Férdia J. Stone-Davis, Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011)
Project MUSE - Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music
Ugly Beauty: John Zorn and the Politics of Postmodern Music from Project MUSE
Japan Has Invented The Greatest Type Of Music Ever
Community: Japan Has Invented The Greatest Type Of Music Ever Babymetal - Megitsune
Dying For Bad Music - Label for American Primitive, Solo Guitar, Psych Folk, Lo-Fi - Start - Dying For Bad Music
Dying for Bad Music Blog and Label
The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.
The Worst Songs Of All Time?
The Worst Songs Of All Time? September 1984, Dubrovnik, Croatia --- Small children cover their ears as they stand next to a sousaphone player during a concert played by the Dubrovnik Saturday Band in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
When Pop Stars Flirt With Bad Taste
When Pop Stars Flirt With Bad Taste : NPR | "Recent pop hits by Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus exist at the juncture where simple fun turns confusing and potentially dangerous, which makes them perfect representatives of our era."
International Cognition and Culture Institute
In Bad Taste: Evidence for the Oral Origins of Moral Disgust
How bad taste in music really CAN ruin a relationship
How bad taste in music really CAN ruin a relationship