디지털 시대, 칸트의 무관심적 감상이 갖는 의미: YouTube 음악 영상물에 대한 감상자의 댓글을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis tries to understand today’s culture of listening to music through discussions about Kant's disinterested appreciation. Disinterestedness means to evaluate the value of art works without interest such as personal taste or belief. The digitalization of music has innovatively transformed our listening types in music. Kant argues that it is difficult for us to listen to music disinterestedly because of the sensitivity of its sound. In the digital age, however, there are many opportunities to enjoy various genres of high-quality music anytime, anywhere, even if not visiting a concert hall with good sound facilities. Kant explains that an appreciator who evaluates a work without interest expects to share his aesthetic feelings with everyone. In the past, it was physically impossible for us to confirm universal sympathy for works, but now the technology of internet makes this possible. So, once I regard all activities of listening to music that take place online as pure reactions of sympathy. Especially I pay attention to comments of music from listeners, to consider how musical sympathy occurs on YouTube, a representative social media site.(Chapter 2) I think that its comments contain the listener's sympathetic emotion for music. To understand it better, in the main chapters are given the examples of the comments of foreigners on BTS's music video of Black Swan and Jo Seong-Jin's performance video of Beethoven's Sonata No. 3 in A Major for Cello and Piano. I try to examine their comments on the two music videos from the perspective of the listener. I agree to some comments, but criticize the way some of the comments are expressed. This is to explain the necessity of disinterested appreciation by showing a model of how it is possible. It is taste that is ability to judge works in our mind. According to Kant, it tests in our mind whether the judgment truly results from disinterested contemplation. But if the testing ability of our taste is inexperienced, we don’t find it although the judgment of taste is based on some interests. However, doubting and criticizing the intentions of others’ comments of music improve our taste.(Chapter 3 and Chapter 4) Kant regards appreciators with mature taste as successors of culture. Listeners in the digital age can also be creators. They create and share music content themselves, and sharing music in itself is a way of inheriting and developing art culture today. However, it is true that the number of stimulating music videos has increased as music has been enjoyed through images of video. To have discernment about them, we need to try to appreciate art works disinterestedly. It is to constantly reflect on whether my appreciation activity is due to biased intentions.(Chapter 5)