著者

上利 博規

出版者

静岡大学人文学部

雑誌

人文論集 (ISSN:02872013)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.1, pp.A17-A37, 2001-07-31

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Over the last thirty years after Adorno's death(1969) the situation of music culture of the world has changed. The purpose of this study is to examine whether Adorno's popular music criticism is still valid for contemporary music culture, and moreover to contribute to the rearrangement of music culture theory. First, I briefly describe the meaning that popular music criticism has in Adorno's philosophy. Section n outlines Adorno's popular music criticism in his five treatises. Section n examines Adorno's criticism from the point of view of comparative music culture theory. We can find the limitations of Adorno's popular music criticism in that he has only one standard to criticize popular music, and we come to the conclusion that we need more fora for critical discussion to improve the quality of popular music.