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Adorno on Popular Music and Protest by Ambasada Štefana Kovača Marka is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Popular music is inherently tied to entertainment and consumption, making it ill-suited for political protest, according to Theodor Adorno. He believes attempts to use popular music for protest are superficial and will fail. Specifically, he finds songs that take horrible topics and make them consumable end up extracting consumerist qualities from those topics, weakening any political message.
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- Ambasada Štefana Kovača Marka
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- EN