The consumption of song as aesthetic experience

Abstract

The article talks about popular song as cultural and media phenomenon and The consumption of the song of consumption in the context of transition from mass society to network society. It takes the artistic expressions such as “open works”, subject to interpretations and recreations and has as objective the understanding of the question of listening to music as a esthetic experience, according to the perspective of Mikel Dufrenne, designed in the field not only the object but also of perception. Therefore, it deals the “aesthetics of reception”, as the Konstanz School indicates, as time-space new poetics in which the receptors generate new meanings. Still, it develops new “soundscapes”, in Murray Schaffer terms, and musical communities in the context of the network society and the proliferation of sounds.