Objective: In this essay I intend to look at how alienation and disaffection may be a catalyst for art, in particular with popular music, as a form of social commentary and self-expression, and what effect if any this art may produce within society. I will do so through studying Marx\u2019s theory on alienation by looking at how if one becomes alienated in society they may use music as an alternative form of subjective labour. Then I will assess the role and worth of popular music in relation to the individual creating it and in turn how this may be used by other people in society and what they can gain from it. Concept: Popular music as a form of social commentary and self-expression. Thinkers: 1. Marx\u2019s theory of alienation: \u2018Anxiety about one\u2019s social role, its basis, and its value is especially likely for creative artists who have \u201cbetaken themselves to their work as an isolated means of \u2018self-expression\u2019 without clear social function.\u2019 (Elridge, 2003) I will explore how, whilst deprived a means of objectifying and fulfilling one’s human nature capitalist labour, creation of music may be an alternative form of productive labour. 2. Adorno\u2019s critique of popular music \u2018Its planned idiocy virtually tests what mankind will put up with, what threadbare, noncommittal intellectual contents can be imposed upon it.\u2019 (Adorno, 1989.p52) Next, I will critically assess Adorno\u2019s damning critique of popular music, aiming to interact with his theory to illustrate how, rather than being a meaningless practice, an audience may connect and be of benefit from it. Key Sources: Marx\u2014 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Adorno\u2014 Introduction to the Sociology of Music, Popular music, Popular culture, Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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