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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450208303321

Autore

Witkin Robert W (Robert Winston)

Titolo

Adorno on popular culture / / Robert W. Witkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-49403-3

0-203-28098-9

1-280-06917-1

0-203-16606-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

306/.092

Soggetti

Popular culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Cultural nemesis; The theory of pseudo-culture; The Dialectic of Enlightenment and The Ring of the Nibelungen; The decay of 'aura' and the schema of mass culture; Star power; Situating music socially; On popular music; Adorno's radio days; Film and television; Woody Allen's culture industry; Walking a critical line home; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. He then goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific aspects of popular culture such as radio, film and popular music.