Theodor Adorno

Today i learned about Theodor Adorno.

One of the first people to write theoretically about popular music - in the 1930s - was a man called Theodor Adorno. He claimed that popular music produced industrially could never effectively challenge dominant meanings and values. He never lived to to watch Pop Stars or Fame Academy. He hated the 'standardisation' of popular music which went 'through the mill' of an industry production process. Fifty years after Adorno first wrote about popular music, four workings-class boys from Blackwood, Wales, were growing up against a backdrop of political unease during the early 1980s- The Manic Street Preachers.