Fordham University Masthead Logo DigitalResearch@Fordham Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Philosophy Collections Fall 10-2018 Musical “Covers” and the Culture Industry: From Antiquity to the Age of Digital Reproducibility Babette Babich Fordham University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://fordham.bepress.com/phil_babich Part of the Audio Arts and Acoustics Commons, Classical Literature and Philology Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Esthetics Commons, Musicology Commons, and the Other Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation Babich, Babette, "Musical “Covers” and the Culture Industry: From Antiquity to the Age of Digital Reproducibility" (2018). Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections. 92. https://fordham.bepress.com/phil_babich/92 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Philosophy at DigitalResearch@Fordham. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections by an authorized administrator of DigitalResearch@Fordham. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Research in Phenomenology 48 (2018) 385–407 Research in Phenomenology brill.com/rp Musical “Covers” and the Culture Industry From Antiquity to the Age of Digital Reproducibility Babette Babich Fordham University
[email protected] Abstract This essay foregrounds “covers” of popular recorded songs as well as male and female desire, in addition to Nietzsche’s interest in composition, together with his rhythmic analysis of Ancient Greek as the basis of what he called the “spirit of music” with re- spect to tragedy. The language of “sonic branding” allows a discussion of what Günther Anders described as the self-creation of mass consumer but also the ghostly time- space of music in the broadcast world.