But not only are records made of plastic. For a long time it was impossible to preserve music without plastic. Tapes and music cassettes made of plastic came onto the market. The world of art and culture would be much poorer without polymeric sounding bodies.
Plastic, however, does not sound as a sounding body alone, but is itself the very essence and content of music. Music, like literature - which we will talk about later - and the other performing arts, is always a mirror of the times, as singer Diana Ross suggests, and thus reflects, not surprisingly, the decades-long presence of plastics and rubber. Would you like some examples?
How about the album "Plastic Beach" by the virtual cartoon band "Gorillaz"? Behind the drawn characters who embody the band are Damon Albarn, singer and musical head of the British rock band "Blur", as well as comic artist Jamie Hewlett. The image on the album cover shows a towering island somewhere in the ocean, drawn in drastic colours. The song On Melancholy Hill draws an apocalyptic world view: Survivors cross our planet in submarines without really finding refuge, a new home. Plastic palm trees on the island as a symbol of the past and the new art world.