Analyzation Of Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno’s Critical Theory On Cultural Industry

The popular musical criticism of Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno plays an important roleon both the development of Western Marxism and the Frankfurt school of thought. In hispoint of view, true arts should be an abstract illusion which is different from the existingforms, therefore remarkable music should be able to catch or describe this abstract illusion.What’s more true arts should take the opposite side of reality and criticize it, in order to be thesalvation of human being. This essay use popular music as an example to deeply analyze thecritical thought of Adorno on culture industrialization, and the advantages and disadvantagesofAdorno’s view on popular music will be dialectically analyzed.The culture industry in China is developing very fast. It enriched people’s Spirituallife and promoted the Economic to increase swiftly. All the world has changed becauseof the culture industry’s development. But besides the welfare, the culture industry alsobrought harm to people which included the prevalence of hedonism, the perish of art, thecrisis of traditional culture, the individual void and so on. Therefore, how to regard theculture industry became a big topic in the scholars’ discussion. The academic circle devotedto solute the question of how to develop the culture industry.In popular music industry as an example of Adorno’s critique of cultural theory toanalyze total can be divided into four parts, the first part of the historical background, thetheoretical background, the theoretical logic of the background culture industry Adorno’scritical theory discourse analysis; second Adorno’s theory of the culture industry viewpointintroduction and analysis section, explain what the culture industry, the background produced,and the impact of cultural industrialization; third part to pop music as an example, to make aconcrete analysis of the culture industry Adorno, pointed out that pop music iscommercialization, standardization, pseudo-personalized, so it makes the spirit of slackhearing degradation, it is also the bond of society, popular culture and cultural industriesunder these features are also characteristic; part IV pointed out Azerbaijan evaluation andcritique of the culture industry enlightenment Donovan theory; summary is Adorno theory asa sort of cultural industries and final generalization. This article has Specifically elaborated historical background and main contents of Adorno’s culture industry theory. It tried hard togive this theory a dialectical the reasonable appraisal, which not only revealed itsone-sidedness and extremalization, but also showed its rationality and influence. And then itelaborated the inspiration of Adorno’s culture industry theory to the development of theculture industry in our country. It’s main purpose is to avoid all sorts of negative influencesin process of the culture industry development as far as possible.Take the Adorno’s view on popular music as an example of culture industrialization, itwill help readers understand Adorno’s critical view on culture industrialization theory, and itwill also direct the direction and method of Chinese culture industry development. As anamateur of popular music the writer has great confidence in the future of Chinese pop music,and it is believed that the Chinese thousands-years history of music will be the increasingpower of pop music in modern China.