On Dancing

[ken <kenneth.mackendrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dancing is fun, but not for everyone.

Sometimes dancing helps you think, sometimes it doesn't.

Dancing helps create community, and it sometimes tears
communities apart.

Most dance music is commodified.  The commodification of
music by the culture industry is representative of the
commodification and production of culture.  It is fair to say that
this encourages postmodernism, whereby the consumer is
absorbed into the economy, damaging cognitive and
intersubjective relations.  There is no right way to live.  But I
certain think there are many wrong ways.  Music speaks to
this - in both directions - for better and worse.

Today - music generally serves to create and maintain
communities.  Some of these communities are dynamic and
others are static.  There is a high degree of conformity
encouraged by musical genres - which are both created by
producers to push product and by artists, who enjoy a certain
degree of consistency within their musical taste.

The appeal of music stems from the capacity of the subject to
enjoy.

A world without enjoyment is pathological.

Enjoyment is a political factor.  Music is political.

Music can be a form of hate speech.

Hate speech isn't limited to style.

Adorno mixed up his categories and ended up with a highly
problematic social diagnosis.  It isn't silly, it's serious.  It is
quite silly.

*This says nothing.*

ken