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Based on Wikipedia it is also called cultural or art industries that is a group of companies and institutions whose primary activity is the production of mass culture and mass based on the constant repetition of some basic patterns which show a series of situations and models unrealistic and inaccessible for the vast majority of cases, with a profit-making.
Can be regarded as means of cultural production:
- TV
- Radio
- Newspapers and magazines
- The film – which becomes an “art” that dominates the uniformity and predictability (cliché)
- Music Business
- Publishers
- Drama
- Dance
- Videogames (recently accepted on March 25 2009), etc..
All these are made looking at the same time increasing the consumption of cultural artifacts, social habits change, educate, inform and ultimately transform society. Thus, any cultural object is considered a cultural product with an ethical value and aesthetic value, from which the targets its offering through the laws of supply and demand. Thus, we see the “outline” of the culture industry that preceded the market value of quality cultural products. The term cultural industries was first used by theorists of the Frankfurt School: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in the book Dialektik der Aufklärung (Dialética the illustration) written in 1944, a time when the culture no longer needs to be justified socially.
In this book, Horkheimer and Adorno elaborate on the reification of culture through industrial processes. Assume that the economy system is a concentrated market in which the culture industry is a business which, in turn, reaffirms the system itself, so that resources end up being technological resources of domination over the receiver (Technocracy).
Under this system, most of the structural needs of modern society find their satisfaction in the mass culture. According Zallo Cultural Industries is “a set of segments, segments and ancillary activities in production and distribution of industrial goods with symbolic content, designed by a creative, organized by a capital that is valued and intended ultimately to the consumer markets with a role of social and ideological reproduction.
According to King and others, cultural industries are those that cover the creation and production of goods and services with intangible cultural content. The goods and services which are integrated lifestyles, values, ideas, and that for purposes of a regulation requiring protection of copyright.
Ultimately, some of these authors as the culture industry are seen as a repressor of the instincts and individuality of people and a tool that allows and encourages the perpetuation of the capitalist system.
I admit I am a staunch fan of music, I love almost all the time sounds like any of the subjects in my ears, but all to some degree. Technology has advanced enormously in recent years and such advances have come on the field of music with the creation of MP3′s, MP4′s and Ipods. These rigs, ever smaller and more capable, can listen to music at home, travel by car, bus or train, or just when you want to disconnect. So far so normal.
But how many times have you wanted to call a friend or acquaintance and could not be due to the casquitos carrying on? Is that it already is becoming more common because MP3 players are becoming more accessible to the population because their price has come down considerably and now almost all have an MP3 player and who is not, you have more than one.
It is understandable that some people listen to music when going to run, bike or even walking but this is not the case. I mean all who carry the MP3 player when they go home because the neighbor, who will work on foot because the work is two streets away, which between classes at school, college or university is put n the headphones … And for what? But if in that minute or minute and a half is far from a house and another or between a classroom and the other is not going to be able to listen more than a quarter of a song! If it takes more to unwind the cables that reach destination! Is not it more important to find out if you call a colleague or even someone wants to alert you of any danger? Do not really annoys twenty times call someone screaming i hear you no bearing on the headphones on? I think so. Or at least a little. I think it is not necessary to be listening in those moments that can last the “journey”?
These are the reasons I have tried to show that you may be aware that one need not always listening to music, especially when you can not hear more than a piece of song. It seems really stupid, I think it is, but it’s a detail, a fact of life that I believe should be allowed.