A Piece of Music in the Context of the “Culture of Consumption” of the Post-Industrial Era

This article explores the specificities of presenting a piece of music as commodities within the framework of “culture of consumption” in the post-industrial era. The authors of the article focus on the issues of transforming the aesthetics of a musical work into a standard musical product of the modern art market, as well as consider-ing the most significant musical “goods” of mass and elite musical culture presented to the domestic consumer: from jazz to opera. It is stated that the musical work of both mass and elite musical culture turns out to be a very popular “product” that is part of the line of satisfying the needs of a modern citizen: from relaxation and enter-tainment to spiritual and aesthetic. Definitely, the position put forward by the authors – a work as a commodity – is relevant, debatable and requires further research in the field of studying modern cultural and economic reali-ties.