A Study on the Impact of Popular Music Genres on UK Youths' Behavior

This report investigates the effects of popular music, specifically gospel, rap, and reggae, on the youth of the United Kingdom. The research explores how these genres influence the lifestyles, cultures, and behaviors of young people in the UK. The introduction establishes the importance of music in society and the cultural significance of various genres. The literature review examines existing research on popular music and its impact, defining key terms and concepts. The methodology section outlines the use of both secondary and primary research methods, including interviews and observations. The results section presents findings from both secondary sources and primary data collected from UK youths, highlighting the influences of each genre. The discussion analyzes the impacts of hip-life (rap), reggae, and gospel music, examining both positive and negative effects on youth culture, including fashion, aspirations, and social commentary. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and implications of the research.

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Contents
Introduction (1)
Literature review (2)
Methods (3)
Results (4)
Discussion (5)
Conclusion (6)

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Areas for further work (7)
References (8)

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Introduction
Generally, the importance of music is known in almost all communities in the world. In modern
world music is everywhere and no part of the society without music lyrics. Music is the oldest art
that is used in various ways in societies all over the world. All societies both literate and non-
literate have developed new ways of presenting their cultural activities by the use of music
(Boulos et al., 2012 p.89). This means that music has the power to express social amendments
and emotions to society. Music creates emotions and feelings at higher rates in an effective
manner. In the United Kingdom, youth is aware of the music and they have tried as much as
possible to emulate themes associated with the music.
Therefore, music influences cultural identities and peoples culture. In UK youth listen to
different types of music such as hip life, jazz, reggae, rock, hip hop, and gospel. The issue here is
that how these musical exposure in society are affecting the lifestyle, the culture, and behavior of
youths. The research discusses the effects of popular music to the youths in the locality of the
UK. The research focused on the effects of gospel music, the hip life or commonly rap and the
reggae music in the UK. The study focused on the impacts of the lyrics to the listeners and the
type of audience where the music is always performed and disseminated in the country. In
addition, the research also investigated how reggae, gospel, and rap impact the aspirations and
fashions used by the youths in the society (Brake, 2013 p.67).
Statement of purpose.
Different researchers have carried out studies on the impacts of music in different countries but
they are yet to identify the effects of music on youths in the UK. Because of this, the research

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has taken the opportunity to carry out research on the impacts of popular music to youths in the
UK.
Research question
The research questions of the research were;
In what ways reggae, gospel, and rap impacts the youth in the UK?
How the lyrical content of music affects youths in the UK both negatively and positively.
How the reggae, gospel, and rap affects the culture –fashion and dressing code of youths in the
UK?
The reason why I am doing the project is that I would like to identify how the behavior of youths
in the UK has been affected by popular music (Crane, Kawashima & Kawasaki, 2016 p.23). The
benefits of the research will be analyzed by answering the research questions identified in the
research. The research ought to benefit the entire population of the UK on how to interpret the
impacts of popular music to their behavior and lifestyles. The research will also impact the music
shops to produce music of high quality and also music that will attract many people not only in
the UK but also in the entire world.
Literature Review
The section reveals the current debate on the research topic. We have different authors who have
described the content reggae, the rap, and gospel but no one has discussed the impacts of popular
music on the UK youths.

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According to Fonarow (2013) the term popular has adjective meanings. This refers to the
common things or general behavior exhibited by someone or something. Therefore, popular
music refers to the common music which targets a large number of individuals in society.
In addition, defines Fonarow (2013) popular music in different ways. The author uses the
ethnography approach to define popular music as music which is created and interpreted in
different ways by different groups and different individuals in society. The issue of popular
music is to focus the social identity and enhance relationships. Therefore, emphasizing music
will mean regulating the social practices and processes within society. Music should be holistic
and historical thus reflecting on the dialogical approach and reflexive arena.
Similarly Lie (2012) alludes the popular music in different perspectives. He says that popular
music involves the unquestionably rooted structures that entail the inner operational patterns and
the entire secular human body. The structure identified by the author here is the music gestures
which utilizes the human body parts for communication. The listeners in this music find
themselves adjusting to the rhythm of the songs. The rhythm of music is the key element that
determines the popularity of music in society. When individuals find themselves swaying to the
same rhythm of the music then it shows that the music is of high quality and it's impacting the
behavior of society. Also, the author has indicated that popular music determines the
understanding of the world. This means popular music measures the people's feelings in society
thus determining the behavior of individuals in the society. The music here has been identified as
the outcome of environmental experience in society and most of the musicians in our societies
write music explaining their life experiences, the social challenges, and personal attributes.
In addition Miranda (2013) defines popular music as that little palindrome which determines the
conundrum of status. The author first concerns on the genre. Since popular music is treated as a

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genre, it should be remembered as a self-definition and it cannot be compared with the
susceptible to the genre. Therefore, music measures the momentary position by describing the
organized words in the sound. The acceptability of popular music in society is acceptable and
that's why it has impacted on social behavior.
Different authors have described why popular music is common and popular in society. Popular
music articulates common features and principles of society thus making it popular. The idea is
that popular music targets the authenticity of society thus making it more popular and being
recognized by the people. There are suggestions that popular music becomes more valuable in
society under the influence of social forces in society. Popular music is therefore related to
different approaches whereby the aim to communicate a certain message to society and also
communicate certain facts regarding the society. In addition, popular music has been associated
with commercial purpose whereby it is linked to the process of advertisement in the marketplace.
This means that a business organization prefers to use popular artist with popular music so as to
reach a large number of individuals.
Methods
The research used both secondary resources and primary sources to obtain data needed in the
research. Method refers to the way of producing data and it's the overall methodology choice
used by the researchers to arrive at the common conclusion in the research (Mercken et al., 2012
p.56). The research used three secondary resources which indicated the effects of music on the
youths in the UK. The secondary resources used were compared and analyzed to give different
findings discussed in the result section.

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Secondary Research
The sources used for content Analysis were;
 Hyder, R., 2017. Brimful of Asia: negotiating ethnicity on the UK music scene 6th edition.
Oxford University Press.
 Frith, S., 1986. Art versus technology: The strange case of popular music. Media,
Culture & Society, 8(3), pp.263-279.
 Prior, N., 2011. Critique and renewal in the sociology of music: Bourdieu and
beyond. Cultural sociology, 5(1), pp.121-138.
All the articles were clearly used to determine the effects of popular music to youths in the UK.
The aim here was to analyses how different resources explained the impacts of popular culture to
the youths in the UK. The results were indicated as shown in the result section of the research.
Primary Research
In the light of research questions identified in the research, the primary research was based on
descriptive design. The descriptive design most of the times it is concerned with the attitudes and
opinions held by the population in the study. In the research I looked on the impacts of popular
lyrics to the youths, recording the positive and negative effects of popular music to youths in the
UK. The impacts of popular music and videos were also analyzed in the research.
The targeted population was the UK youths in different areas such as schools and in churches.
The research also targeted the bars and restaurants which attracts a lot of youths in the UK. Also,
the research targeted the use of social media such as YouTube in accessing music videos and
audios which are major sources of popular music (Miranda et al.,2012 p.34). The data was
collected by the use of interviews with the help of an interview guide and observation which

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were noticed during the data collections in the study. The youths in different fields such as
churches and restaurants were to fill the research guide which articulated on different concepts
which revolved around identifying the effect of popular music on the youths in the UK. All the
information was to be recorded on the interview guide and then taken for further analysis.
Analysis Method
From the research method, it's clear that qualitative analysis is to be used. This shows that data
analysis was to be used based on the information obtained from the interview guide in the
research. The relevant performance of the genres and the audience used were sampled and all the
information's related to the influence of popular music on the youths in the UK was analyzed.
Results
The results obtained were as shown below

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(a). the secondary sources
Articles used for data
Frith, S., 1986. Art versus
technology: The strange case
of popular music. Media,
Culture & Society, 8(3),
pp.263-279.
Prior, N., 2011. Critique and
renewal in the sociology of
music: Bourdieu and
beyond. Cultural
sociology, 5(1), pp.121-138.
Hyder, R., 2017. Brimful
of Asia: negotiating
ethnicity on the UK music
scene 6th edition.Oxford
University Press.
Gospel music influences the
social cohesion of youths.
Gospels are source of
entertainment
Reggae music influences the
dressing code
Reggae has positive impacts to
youths
The Hip life music serves as
source of entertainment.
Hip life music influences the
dressing codes.
(b).The primary data.
The data obtained in the research interview gave the following results. The three types of popular music
gave the following data results

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The gospel music gave impacts of 40%
The rap music gave impacts of 35%
The reggae music impacts of 25%

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Discussion
The discussion analyses how the three categories of populous music have impacted the youths in
the UK. The results in secondary resources resembled the primary sources used in research.
The impacts of Hip Life music.
From the data obtained the rap music forms a social commentary that is related to societies and
communities. The results gave moral implication to youths in the UK. From the information
filled in the interview guide, we observed that the influence of hip-life music cannot be ignored
at any cost. The influence of rap music to youths in the UK comprises both positive and negative
impacts (Miranda et al., 2012 p.134). The youths indicated that they have a different way of
viewing rap music in the country whereby some indicted that rap music initiates fame to youths.
Mastering what our artist do speak in the songs makes youth to be famous. The other category of
participants viewed rap music as a basis of negative influence on society. The participants said
that they were not happy on dressing code emulated form the artist in rap music. Most of the
youths in the UK who cannot afford the expensive models of clothes end up stealing because
they want to be like the artist.
Impacts of reggae music to UK youths
Generally, the impacts of reggae or the commonly known as Rastafari is huge and has many
effects on society. The results obtained from the research guide indicated that youths in the UK
were fully influenced by reggae cultural practices. It was observed that much of the Jamaican
cultural practices which are connected to Rastafari culture were highly practiced by youths in the
UK (Sawka et al.,2013).The reggae music, therefore, played a major role in spreading
fundamental elements which were associated with modern Jamaica. Youths could even use the

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Jamaican accent when answering the interview guide of the research. The physical appearance of
youths resembled the overall appearance of reggae artists in Jamaica. Youths dressed exactly like
Rastafari. They were in ganja attires and in military styles which influenced the appealing of
youths.
In addition, the youths seemed to be united. Unity is key element preached by Reggae music.
This positive influence helps youths to work together and isolate themselves from the bad
behavior which they believe it's against the principles of reggae music. The negative influence of
the reggae music was on the use of marijuana plant which youths believed was a good plant for
smoking. This had negative influence since marijuana facilitated drug abuse in the UK (Sawka et
al., 2013).
The influence of gospel music to youths in the UK.
Some of the impacts of gospel music were increased evangelism in the UK. Most of the youths
indicated that they were spiritually influenced by the gospels in the UK. Some were close to the
word of God and that's they were seen quoting concepts related to worlds of God in filling the
research interview. In addition, the gospel music served as a source of entertainment in different
occasions such as weddings, marriages and birthday ceremonies carried out by the youths in the
UK.
From all the impacts outlined the research identified some deviations and similarities between
the three types of popular music. Both of the music was used as a source of entertainment. The
difference occurs in the area of use. The three types of music are used in different areas and on
different occasions.

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Conclusion
The use of populous music in society has resulted in both negative and positive effects. The
youths in the UK have emulated both positive effects and negative effects of music. From the
reggae music, we can notice how the use of marijuana has influenced the issue of drug abuse
(Swami et al., 2013 p.45).On another hand listening to populous music gives pleasure and
entertainment. The results obtained have answered the research questions. Therefore, in most of
the youths, the effects of populous music tend not to be harmful.

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Areas for further work
The future plans of the study should research on how parents and guardians are regulating the use of
populous music amongst the youths in the UK.
Also, the study needs to research on how governmental policies have regulated the quality of music in the
UK thus regulating the spreading of bad videos and abusive terms when singing.

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CW1 Report
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Contents
Introduction (1)
1) Semiological Analysis of a
Music Magazine Cover or Album Cover (2)
2) Frankfurt School Critique of Song (3)
Conclusion (4)
References (5)

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Introduction (1)
This paper discusses the existing semiological analysis of a particular
magazine cover or musical album cover.in this case the paper discusses
on Arctic monkeys which as a musical album cover consisting of various
songs.it also talks about critique of Frankfurt’s school critique of
song.Adorno is adversely discussed in this case.
1) Semiological Analysis of a
Music Magazine Cover or Album Cover (2)
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Figure 1.1 Cover
Introduction
The Arctic Monkeys are an English outside the box musical crew comprising of four individuals. In 2013,
they discharged their fifth studio collection: 'AM'. The spread craftsmanship for the collection is very
interesting has a basic dynamic structure. It comprises of not a dark but rather a dim foundation with a
smooth white wavy line over the flat focus of the collection. This picture has turned out to be very notable
and is perceived to speak to the Arctic Monkeys which makes it a decent showcasing strategy.
Literature review
It would at first appear that the structure is only a dynamic and there wouldn't be any more profound
communicational implications related with it yet as a media student one can accept this as a test. There is
by all accounts a pattern in the music business to just highly contrasting hues or have photos totally in
greyscale on collection covers (Bartmanski,and Woodward, 2015,p.23).Utilizing high contrast pictures is
a simple method for make sensational impact to a picture as the picture seems to have cruel lighting and
strong shadows. It additionally enables the picture to emerge since the difference among highly
contrasting are so extraordinary.
When somebody first takes a gander at the collection spread they would promptly the wavy line, and
translate it to be an emblematic portrayal of sound waves. These aren't terrible, loud waves as peaks and
troughs are smooth bends instead of sharp and jittery. Just from the appearance of the wave, the watcher's
can tell that the wave portrayal is a music design and not commotion.
The abundancy of the wave builds at that point diminishes and after that rehashes this example, making a
flat hourglass shape (Danesi, 2018,p.54).Taking a gander at the focal point of this plan, the line frames an
'AM' which would obviously be an abbreviation for the Arctic Monkeys. 'AM' is additionally the name of
the studio collection itself. This shape can likewise be broke down further as usually utilized in the Arctic
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Discussion
Do I Wanna Know' is the principal single track for the collection 'AM'. The music video of 'Do I Wanna
Know' has extraordinary cooperative energy with the music collection. The music video also is only a
dark screen with hued (for the most part white) strings delineating the music. This music video is
completely unique; anyway it contains a great deal of the components of standard music recordings in it.
For instance, a stone music video would normally pursue the shows of having close ups of the
entertainers playing their instruments alongside the music (Hawkins, 2017,p.34).Albeit no instruments are
appeared in this dynamic video, the white line focused over the screen some of the time emulates the
guitar strings being pulled. There is no notable indication of the lead vocalist or any of the band
individuals. We do anyway get an emblematic portrayal of the lead vocalists singing through the sound
wave scope framed by the string. This obviously is synchronized with the vocals in the soundtrack.
In the second 50% of the video, we see a sound wave portrayal of what every one of the four band
individuals are playing including the vocalist, guitarists and the drummer.
If we somehow managed to apply mise en scene, the notorious portrayal of females is it is possible that
them wearing tank tops and hot jeans (shorts) or nothing by any means. The generalization of females in
this video is very striking as I would like to think, persuading this was does to satisfy the reason
expressed in Laura Mulvey's 'Male Gaze' hypothesis. The hypothesis expresses that the portrayal of ladies
in music recordings and special material is done to fulfill men with visual joy. From this music video, I
would assume that most by far of the Arctic Monkeys' gathering of people is male (Machin, 2017,p.45).
In the wake of seeing so much externalization and sexualisation in the music video for 'Do I Wanna
Know?' I thought about whether I could discover any in the collection spread for 'AM'. I had officially
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stance. I had contemplated it previously yet it required me investment to turn out to be certain about it
however I trust that the two shapes framed by the wavy string are to make it a notable portrayal of a bra. I
glanced back at the music video and found that the shape is really spoken to as a bra for not exactly a
second. Some group of onlookers inputs have expressed that they saw either shades or a bra. Along these
lines, one feel that the collection spread and music video legitimately allude to and advance each other
which makes cooperative energy between the two
In the second 50% of the video, we see a sound wave portrayal of what every one of the four band
individuals are playing including the vocalist, guitarists and the drummer.
Despite the fact that the video is particularly conceptual, we can at present apply Andrew Goodwin's
hypothesis of voyeurism as a show in music recordings. The strings periodically change into mutilated
figures of female bodies which are excessively sexualised.
The majority of the Arctic Monkeys' collections are particularly not quite the same as one another. For
instance, their collection spread for 'unoriginal' comprises of the band individuals calmly presented and
their collection 'most loved most exceedingly terrible bad dream' just comprises of designs and no band
individuals. One of their amazingly remarkable collection spread was for their fourth collection 'Suck it
and See'. This collection has an extremely light peach foundation (Nekola., 2013,p.13).. This collection
has a very vintage or old fashioned look to it. The band clarified that this collection of theirs has vintage
style music.
2) Frankfurt School Critique of Song (3)
Introduction
While T.W. Adorno is an enthusiastic figure on the contemporary social scene, his idea from numerous
points of view cuts over the grain of rising postmodern orthodoxies. In spite of the fact that Adorno
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conflicts with the postmodern festival of media culture, assaults on innovation as out of date and elitist,
and the more agreed mentality toward contemporary culture and society found in many, yet not every
single, postmodern circle. Adorno is consequently an exceedingly opposing figure in the present group of
stars, foreseeing some propelled inclinations of contemporary idea, while standing firming against other
regnant scholarly frames of mind and positions. In this article, I contend that Adorno's examinations of
the elements of mass culture and correspondences in contemporary social orders comprise important, yet
questionable, inheritances. Adorno exceeded expectations both as a faultfinder of supposed "high culture"
and "mass culture," while delivering numerous vital messages in these territories. His work is recognized
by the nearby association between social hypothesis and social investigate, and by his capacity to
contextualize culture inside social advancements, while giving sharp basic examination
Adorno, Culture, and theDialectic of Enlightenment Adorno's hypothesis of culture was bound up with
his examination with Max Horkheimer of the "argument of illumination
Literature review
While Adorno would in general scrutinize accurately the most precisely interceded works of mass culture
for their institutionalization and loss of stylish quality - while praising those works that most relentlessly
opposed commodification and mechanical multiplication - Benjamin saw dynamic highlights in high
craftsmanship's loss of its auratic quality and its ending up more politicized. Such craftsmanship, he
guaranteed, accepted a greater amount of a "display esteem" than a cultic or religious esteem, and hence
demystified its gathering. Besides, he trusted that multiplication of mass craftsmanship - particularly
through film - would convey pictures of the contemporary world to the majority and would help raise
political awareness by encouragingscrutiny of theworld, just as by conveying socially basic pictures to a
great many onlookers (Rasmussen Pennington, 2016,p.599).

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In some expositions on prevalent music and in his investigations of the way of life ventures, Adorno
endeavored to give a basic reaction to Benjamin's idealistic evaluation of the socially basic capability of
well known craftsmanship. In a 1938 exposition, "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of
Listening," Adorno dissected in detail the different ways that music entertainers, conductors, instruments,
specialized execution, and game plan of works were fetishized, and how this implied thewaysthat trade
esteem was prevailing over use-esteem in melodic creation and gathering - accordingly directing again
toward how private enterprise had the capacity to control parts of life once impervious to business
concerns(Spracklen, Lucas,and Deeks, 2014,p.12).
In this way, for Adorno "credible craftsmanship" gave understanding into existing reality, communicating
human torment and the need forsocial change, and gave too a tasteful encounter which created basic
cognizance and the requirement for individual and social change.
critique
This demeanor likewise leads basic scholars to disregard, with certain exemptions, dissecting explicit
movies, TV projects, or relics of mainstream culture, since they assume ahead of time that such antiques
are basically a degraded type of culture and vehicle of philosophy which are not deserving of nitty gritty
investigation or evaluate. Accordingly, when Adorno analyzes instances of prominent music and TV, he
for the most part confines himself to charging their belief systems and "retrogressive" impacts on
awareness without dissecting the work's logical inconsistencies, basic or oppositional minutes, or
potential to give knowledge into social conditions or to evoke a basic reaction. But while prominent
music may, as Adorno contended, display highlights of commodification, reification, and
institutionalization, which may thus effectsly affect awareness, such a hypothetical optic can't enough
record for the beginning and notoriety of numerous types of well known music, for example, the blues,
jazz, shake and move, reggae, punk, and different types of music associated with oppositional
subcultures. Since music is the most non-authentic everything being equal, it gives vehicles to the outflow

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of torment, rage, bliss, insubordination, sexuality, and other essential human encounters which may have
dynamic impacts.
Adorno indicated constraints of the capacity of the way of life industry to control observer cognizance.
Considering an investigation directed of the media's introduction of themarriage of a Dutch Princess to a
high society German, Adorno focused on that the crowd saw through themedia publicity of this occasion,
and reasonably seen its unimportance (Spracklen, Lucas,and Deeks, 2014,p.12). He in this way closed:
"The coordination of awareness and relaxation is clearly not yet altogether fruitful. The realinterests of
the people are as yet sufficient, at the edges, to oppose all out control."
Adorno's model of the way of life culture industry does not take into consideration the heterogeneity of
mainstream culture and conflicting impacts, rather straightjacketing media culture as reification and
commodification as indications of the complete triumph of capital and the all out reification of
experience.Undoubtedly, much mainstream culture loans itself definitely to Adorno's classifications and
scrutinize, however as proposed, different precedents oppose his classifications and require a
progressively intricate way to deal with social understanding and study. However at times, Adorno
qualified his one-dimensional judgment of pop culture, and furthermore took into account the likelihood
of gathering of people protection from media control.
In "Transparencies on Film," Adorno strangely shown that a specific kind of film may contain socially
basic potential and that mass culture itself duplicates existing clashes and enmities: "In its endeavors to
control the majority, the philosophy of the way of life industry itself moves toward becoming as inside
adversarial as the very society which it expects to control. The philosophy of the way of life industry
contains the remedy to its own falsehood" . Specifically, Adorno trusted that the strategy of montage (the
juxtaposition of pictures to make various impacts of importance and socially basic affiliations).
Some portion of the issue is that Adorno and his supporters unbendingly compare their ideas of "genuine
craftsmanship" - demonstrated on bosses of the vanguard like Schonberg, Kafka, and Beckett - against

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mass culture which they reprove for neglecting to have the characteristics that they find in their favored
tasteful models (Rasmussen Pennington,2016,p.569).
More often than not, in any case, Adorno makes a somewhat inflexible refinement between "high culture"
and "mass culture," a dualism that has gone under basic assault, yet which is undermined by the
propensities of postmodern culture to implode social limits and breakdown chains of importance
(Nekola,2016,p.117). Adorno, presumably, would consider this to be a case of social savageness, however
it appears to be unreasonable to anticipate that results of the way of life ventures should have the
characteristics of works of past "high culture"
As it were, Adorno's feel are undialectical. He works with a parallel differentiation between "bona fide"
craftsmanship and mass culture in which the last is totally corrupted and emancipatory impacts are
restricted to the previous. This position recreates the German religion of high craftsmanship and its
unavoidable elitism, and totally prohibits the "prevalent" from the area of "the credible," along these lines
relapsing behind the scrutinizes of Brecht and Benjamin.
Conclusion (4)
Conversely, while there is no doubt yet that Adorno has excessively uneven and unnecessarily negative
and basic perspectives on both the writings and the gatherings of people of media culture, incidentally, I
have a bad dream that in some sense Adorno is correct, that media culture all things considered keeps
people satisfied and subservient to the rationale and practices of market private enterprise, that the way of
life industry has moved toward becoming altogether commodified and assimilates and diverts all
oppositional culture to subservient closures (Bartmanski, and Woodward, 2015,p.27).

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One sees a general public in strife with contending bunches struggling to control the course of society,
with dynamic and backward powers in conflict. In this circumstance, to have a rationalistic and
oppositional social analysis that intercedes in the battles of the present minute, unmistakably we should
move past Adorno while absorbing his intransigent oppositional position and basic experiences.
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