from India: Ravi Shankar - Dhun But this is not 'folk music' as we defined it, rather it is an example of the 'high' in a different cultural and social context.
The virtuoso instrumentalist and composer as superstar: Franz Liszt.
Good interview on WNYC's Soundcheck with Tim Blanning author of The Triumph of Music, a 'social history' of musicians in the west and how they went from being considered merely servants to being 'stars'. This is an excellent example of metacontextual musical knowledge. Required listening.
Here are the first two chapters from Eric Barnouw's Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. Barnouw organizes his history around the figures of the filmmakers and the films that they made. These first two chapters detail the pre-history of the cinema (Prophet) and the early experiments in the form (Explorer/Reporter/Painter).
from Frith & Goodwin (eds), On Record -Adorno, "On Popular Music" nb. You can find this essay together with "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" co-written with Max Horkheimer --an essay which if you have not read should definitely do so-- here.
from Even Eisenberg, The Recording Angel: Music Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa -Eisenberg, Chapter 2: Music Becomes a Thing
To tie into our discussion on audience agency and activity. This is bell hooks' classic article on black female spectatorship from her book Black Looks: Race and Representation.
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