Dialectic of Pop 2 (Part 1 Ch 2: Anti-Pop)

The party’s over…or is it? Introducing the figure of Theodor T. Adorno, confirmed enemy of 'light popular music' in all its forms, critic of the ‘culture industry’, a penetrating and sophisticated thinker of modern culture who may prove to be a paradoxical ally in thinking through the question of pop. For pop songs are not unconscious of the questions Adorno raises—pop itself constantly argues against pop. One of a series of playlists to accompany Agnès Gayraud’s book Dialectic of Pop, published by Urbanomic (https://www.urbanomic.com/book/dialec...)