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Title: Music
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
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Music
Discuss the continuing relevance of Adorno’s views on popular music as expressed in ‘On Popular Music’ with reference to today’s popular music
It’s impossible to take away popular music from social conditions and cultural theory. One of the earliest academic writers to consider the importance of popular music was T W Adorno; he refused to draw distinction between high and popular cultures, describing them as “torn halves of integral freedom, to which
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on hindsight Adorno has been proved right by the thousands of songs that have been written using the exact same chord structure and song form, thus proving he was correct in some ways. We could not start to think clearly about popular music without first having to read and understand this article, whether one agrees or disagrees this was the first article to ever question the social implants the public had been believing for years.
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