Sonia Ramírez
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Producer: Ric Brown
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Adorno; Adorno; Critical Theory
Source
Theodor Adorno – Music and Protest
He has a very good point. Millionaire popstars singing about social injustice shouldn't work. But it can. Do lyrics really matter? I do pay a lot of attention to lyrics but they often are hard to decipher. If I like the melodies, the genre, the production, the singer's voice, as long as the lyrics are quite alright, it can work really well. Then there are those musicians that release a deep track once in a while, but mostly they are singing abou banalities. The music industry is about money and fame. You can even manipulate your listeners by writing a deep song. It's almost impossible to figure out if the author's intention is honest or not. Can it be honest? Not really. It's your job, you have to sell to make money. You will always choose your words carefully.
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name of the piece?
Once heard Dylan's The Times They Are A Changin' in a supermarket. I had a little chuckle to myself. That's the same Bob Dylan who said the purpose of life was to become stinking rich so you could do as you wished.
Tell that to black sabbath,ccr,and the stones to name 3
Has anyone written about music as protest? Thoughts?
He's still right no matter what holes you poke in it
this guy is a real shit talker. In the past it was a lot easier to get a teaching job..He would be panhandling today.
Anything more ironic than a marxist that is this out of touch with practical reality? Posterity has clearly proven him wrong. The music of the 60's helped shape a new cultural landscape in a definitive way by introducing a new set of values against the ubiquity of traditionalism and complacency towards authority of the past.
It is interesting, though, that reactionary crackpots see this as a threat to Western Civilization. Turns out, the threshold of tolerance towards popular culture was even lower within the Frankfurt School.
the Frankfurt School was all about intellectual misery…
Does anyone know what year this was filmed? Want to quote it in my dissertation
mic drop
Not everything entirely fails of its own accord. Popular music is a weapon used to simplify and degrade oblivious parties who are unaware of the doomed structural momentums heaving towards these planned rehearsals for extinction. "There is no There there"
So goodd
it is unfortunate that he did not ascribe this same notion to that other form of popular fiction: philosophy, which is at best opinion, based on ostensible reasoning.
Theodor Adorno was a Communist. Communism was invented and perfected by the Jesuits. Communism is a fascist system of control over people and life systems. Adorno was a "mouthpiece" for the Jesuits and was PAID well. Marxist/Gramscian Cultural philosophical claptrap is the root of all deception and trouble in the 20th/21st centuries!
Me encanta.
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First, factor out the colossal intellectual deficit incurred by Adorno in being a dedicated Marxist. He says in other interviews that popular music softens up the consumer and makes him more amenable to authoritarian rule. Has there ever been a better example of this than the leftish avant-garde always and everywhere seeking to stifle free thought in today's West, preaching tolerance while practicing rabid hatred towards anything conservative? Adorno died before he could see plainly that his very own philosophy creates the exact situation that he decries.
Adorno wrote all of the Beatles tunes
Wow who would've thought it I finally saw the guy that wrote all of the Beatles lyrics and music
The Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad brought me here.
Bravo!
Adorno was a cunt and a charlatan. We've got to root out what he has sown and expose his minions. But otherwise, fuhgeddabout him, his venom and depravity, good riddance!
"We live in a spectacular society, that is, our whole life is surrounded
by an immense accumulation of spectacles. Things that were once directly
lived are now lived by proxy. Once an experience is taken out of the
real world it becomes a commodity. As a commodity the spectacular is
developed to the detriment of the real. It becomes a substitute for
experience." – Guy Debord
This guy also hated Sibelius, Puccini and jazz in general. He thought that Schoenberg was a figure of the same rank of Shakespeare or Michelangelo. For Adorno, all "beautiful" music exerts a pacifying effect and that is bad for revolutionary politics. Oh, he liked Beethoven, however, with the exception of his Missa Solemnis. You have to love these marxists…
whats the song here