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Adorno’s radio phenomenology – Technical reproduction, physiognomy and music

Updated March 11, 2024 | Published March 25, 2021 by M

Abstract Adorno’s phenomenological study of radio offers a sociology of music in a political and cultural context. Situating that phenomenology in the context of Adorno’s philosophical background and the world political circumstances of Adorno’s collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld on the Princeton Radio Project, illuminates both Adorno’s Current of Music and the Dialectic of Enlightenment with … Read more

Alan Watt on the Music And Culture Creation Industry – The Beatles – Stars Are Made

Updated February 22, 2024 | Published March 25, 2021 by M

Alan Watt from CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com talking about music and the culture creation industry. Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Theodore Adorno, sex drugs and rock n roll. ALAN WATT’s VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ar5TESkfMk Theodore Adorno He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, … Read more

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