SOC334 Study Guide - Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Aporia
7 Mar 2014
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Adorno & horkheimer, the culture industry sells entertainment to mass culture through the commodification of an aesthetic experience. fulfilling needs you didn"t know you have. creates the need and fills it at once, but never fills it permanently. The production of needs they are selling you an ideology: the luxury life, etc. the ruling class, the capitalists, need to keep making profit. Zeno ackermann"s essay on alan parker"s cinematic interpretation of the wall by pink. He talks about the emergence of rock and roll as emergent from the culture industry from the first. The whole sound is tied to the production of a commodity for mass culture. it is the rise of elvis and the beatles. This formed ideological expectations of what consuming music means. Rock itself depends on an assumption that there is a mass audience that wants to consume that kind of music. It is invested with the authority of authenticity.
