Stanford Humanities Center
Intervention
Video art post-Gaga: Short attention span snippets on Kanye, Bjork, Bob Dylan, NIN & ICP
It used to be easy to understand the difference between Pop Music and Art Music. Pop Music was awesome (but kind of slight) and Art Music was awesome (but kind of tedious).
No longer.
Since the emergence of Lady Gaga and her ilk, it's become harder and harder to determine the line between Art & Pop, between high culture and low culture and, yes, even between live and Memorex. The latest instance?
