‘Underground’: Counter-Culture and the Record Industry in the 1960s

The Emergence of Television as a Conservative Media Revolution: Historicising a Process of Remediation in the Post-War Western European Mass Media Ensemble

“…98 Together with popular magazines, the disc record and the cinema, radio acted as a powerful mediator in the transfer of political and cultural norms and values not only between America and Western Europe, but also across the Iron Curtain. 99 To conclude, the intermedial and comparative approach to media history advocated here aims at deconstructing the early dispositif of television, stressing its manifold material interdependencies, structural relationships and cultural or aesthetic affinities with other media. In historicising this process of remediation, two central characteristics became evident: the conservative nature of this evolutionary process in terms of innovation patterns, and the strong nationalistic bent of television as an infrastructure, public service and cultural form.…”

How to play … popular music: Didactic action and the display of musical expertise in online tutorials

“…At the same time, reference can be made here to the habitual aspect and the aesthetic concept of coolness, which were mentioned in Section 2. Many of the body practices of popular music known today developed in the youth and countercultural environments of the 1960s that stood in opposition to existing ideas of morality and decency or at least sought to articulate an alternative to them (Bennett, 2012;Siegfried, 2006). One could say that the pop performance became an independent art form, and an essential element of this development was that the performers overcame the restrictions that mainstream society had imposed on the body (Watermeyer, 2008).…”