DOUBLE LIVES IN ART AND POP MUSIC

J. Heiser argues that context shifting between art and pop music is an attempt to find solutions for contradictions faced in one fie ld of cultural production. Ever since Duchamps readymade and Hugo Balls sound poetry, the definition of art has widened and dissol ved to a point where nearly anything geared toward an art audience can be considered an artwork. Why did Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground? What made Yoko Ono use the skills she develop ed in the artistic avant-garde in pop music, a...[Read more]