The article presents selected issues regarding the role of popular music. The following issues are addressed: the development of phonography from its mechanical form to the modern, virtual one, changes in professional music creation, the role of new media in functioning of musicians, and music as a medium of generational influence. Changes in the operation of show business in the context of the development of new media and pandemics were also shown.
The study deals with the concepts of Jim Morrison’s art from the perspective of Jim Morrison’s myth especially his “self-made shamanism”. Jim Morrison created a “personal shamanism” that basically determined his art and image. The study explores how and why Jim Morrison created his own myth and built shamanistic elements in his songs, poems, and performances. Besides, the paper touches on the connections and between Jim Morrison’s ideas and show business. Whit this in mind, the study brings up examples of the “Jim Morrison myth” after his death and tries to place this myth in the meanings of modernity’s mythology.
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