A Critical-Cultural Analysis Of Evolving Music Technology and Human Communication: Should We Let The Music Do The Talking?
Erin Warren · DigitalCommons - CalPoly (California State Polytechnic University) · 2015
Noted media communication scholar Marshall McLuhan said it best when he famously asserted “the medium is the message.” He continues on, recognizing that “the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale Warren 5 that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology” (McLuhan 7). One category of mediums it applies best to is music. This interests me, as a communication studies student and as someone who aims to understand the role that human interaction plays in music technology. In my critical cultural analysis, I will be analyzing how different communication studies principles are demonstrated in our motivations and ways we choose to listen to music.