La critica di Adorno alla popular music

For a long time, popular music has been presented as a field of loisir,
devoid of artistic value, social expression of barbaric subcultures and
product of a cultural industry aimed at mass distraction. In this
perspective, the criticism of Theodor W. Adorno is crucial and, even
today, his theses – on the aesthetic inferiority of popular music compared
to the “cultivated” music and on the deplorable socio-cultural effects of
its diffusion – are still a shared judgment. Even for this reason, they
deserve attention. After showing, we will focus on the critics about
Adorno’s Theory by the most recent and important scholars.