Adorno on Popular Culture by Witkin, Robert W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Title page Copyright page Preface 1 Cultural nemesis

Alienation Fetish-consciousness Domination Adorno’s structuration model Taylorism Music and society The draining of dialectical relations Late romantic art Concentration versus distraction

2 The theory of pseudo-culture

Riesman Autarchy and adaptation Class and pseudo-culture High culture into mass culture

3 The dialectic of enlightenment and the ring of the nibelungen

Dystopian futures The culture industry Homes as ‘machines for living in’ Standarization of products, differentiation of markets The lack of differentiation between whole and parts Leisure Models of submission The industry of mass deception

4 The decay of ‘aura’ and the schema of mass culture

Benjamin Brechtian motifs Recognition as a surrogate for meaning Musical fetishism The psychology of self-abandon Two torn halves Duplication Technique and content The thief of time

5 Star power

Authoritarianism The closed mind The berkeley study ‘Stars down to earth’ The bi-phasic approach

6 Situating music socially

The social situation of music Vulgar music Music reproduction

7 On popular music

Development versus ornamentation Music and meaning Natural music and pseudo-individualization Improvisation Popular music and ‘leisure time’ Response types Winthrop sargeant

8 Adorno’s radio days

Pedagogy

9 Film and television

Situation comedy Film music

10 Woody allen’s culture industry

Presence Construction Mimesis Popular culture Readiness The ‘woody’ figure Life imitates art Utopia surfaces

11 Walking a critical line home

The intelligence of feeling and expressivist theories of art The enlightenment ideal of identity Jazz and the culture industry Popular art and the intra-personal Is adorno still relevant?

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