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    the culture that led to many of the political events in the 1960’s. Both Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer proposed the culture industry and mass marketing concept in their The Dialectic of Enlightenment essay.They argue that one could never escape from the influences of the media.The protest music of the 60’s left a huge impact on the american people as well as the music industry from years to come. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer explored the American culture.Adorno had fled from germany during

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    start to investigate what happens on a daily basis about people - focus is on audiences divided into two categories - high culture/low culture high wealthy exclusivity low - base culture inferior/common lower social class Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer ‘the culture industry’ culture had lost its art mass produced - everything was pretty much the same only working class was oppressed why is culture industries important? the power that they have to influence people large

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    The Wish Image and the Romantic/Capitalist Artist As I noted in Chap.ter 3Two‚ the conflict between technology and artist is a capitalist conflict‚ and accordingly will not be satisfactorily resolved except outside of capitalism‚ through substantial social reorganization. But what can Gaddis’s discussion of the outmoded player piano finally tell us about the relationship between new music technologies and musicians? Agapē Agape suggests that we should not ignore or underestimate the extent to which

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    I. THEORY Negative Knowledge Model by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Adorno’s own view is that art and reality stand at a distance from each other and that this distance gives ‘the work of art a vantage-point from which it can criticize actuality’ (Adorno 1977:160). He said‚ this critical distance comes from the fact that literature has its own ‘formal laws’. The first law is the ‘procedure and techniques’ which in modern art ‘dissolve the subject matter and reorganize it’ (1977:153). Second

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    Q: Take a contemporary cultural phenomenon and discuss in relation to Adorno and Horkheimer’s theories on mass culture and entertainment. INTRODUCTION In today’s fast-paced world‚ the society is in a constant state of flux‚ with personal and interpersonal contact being extruded in favour of mediated forms of communication. The mass media are fundamental for dissemination of both mass and popular culture‚ which‚ in the simplest terms‚ refers to the artifacts‚ entertainment‚ beliefs and

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    argues that an artist must do this with a piece of work in order to make up for the fact that the song has no real substance so instead‚ “Listeners become so accustomed to the recurrence of the same things that they react automatically” (Adorno‚ 27). According to Adorno the audience neither cares nor notices that fact that the music they are listening to does not actually have any depth or creativity‚ instead repeating itself over and over simply because the artist can get away with it. The recurrence

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    an apprentice to Horkheimer and Adorno‚ Habermas’ was not entirely in agreement with the two theorists when it came to their views on the Enlightenment. He seemed to suggest that his mentors went too far in their examination‚ and he stressed that they gave scientific reason too much credit‚ choosing himself to base his arguments in the belief that human life and cognitive processes were stronger than simple scientific reasoning. One of the key issues in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment

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    essentially outlines the requirements for a good teacher and also the environment of teaching and learning that they create in the classroom. Essentially Adorno requires the teacher to be an intellectual i.e. –to possess a “relationship to his own work and to the total social totality of which it is a part “1 .This intellectualism ‚ according to Adorno should extend to every section of the Childs curriculum and not just focus on an area in which the teacher is proficient. Essentially this means that

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    Adorno Aricle about music Esthetic theory refers to the division in philosophy that is concerned with beauty and art. It deals with the scientific study of sensory and emotions. Esthetic theory may also be termed as Aesthetic theory. The term aesthetics is derived from a Greek word aisthanomal which means to perceive‚ feel or sense. It has been defined by scholars as an expression of nature‚ art and culture. Aesthetic is further divided into four theories; music‚ literary film and art. Theodor

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    Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer whom the main critical theorists about the concept of cultural industry. They are the forerunner in this field‚ and they had social criticism about "cultural industries" phenomenon in the capitalist system (Adorno and Horkheimer‚ 1944). The argument for this essay is that popular culture is similar to a factory production with standardized and used to manipulate the mass society spread by mass media such as radio‚ recorded music‚ film and television. Adorno thinks

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