MÜZİK SOSYOLOJİSİNDE T. W. ADORNO’NUN YERİ
THE PLACE OF T. W. ADORNO IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of this article is discussing the place of Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno in music sociology and makes it more understandable. To achieve this objective the thoughts of Adorno on society and music which are the fundamentals of music sociology are studied. Priority topics of this article which are important to understand the place of Adorno in Music Sociology are; “culture industry”, “dialectic of enlightenment” and “negative dialectics”. From a sociological stand point, Adorno’s statements on music and society casts light on the relationship between these two. When asserting that the culture industry destroy anything which does not bear it and is not marketable, Adorno was especially referring. With such statements Adorno suggests that music has been transformed into a commodity, losing its essence and becoming alienated to its own original values in the process, and thus being integrated into capitalist consumption processes. Under the influence of the Culture Industry, music is distancing itself from critical thought, instead becoming caught in a banality and conformity devoid of any logic or thought. By elucidating the relationships between music and society, Adorno has allowed us to think of production, reproduction and distribution processes within the scope of music. Through his assessments on different forms of music, and on the production and distribution of music, Adorno has provided insight into the relationship between music and society. It is therefore possible to say that, by evaluating music and society together, Adorno has laid the foundations of music sociology.

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