On Negative Spirit in Adorno's Musical Sociology
Abstract
Frankfurt School theorists Adorno in his "Philosophy of Modern Music", the two musicians to Schoenberg and Stravinsky as a comment on the focus, the use of sophisticated sociological theory has been refined to the modern music and deep analysis and research, confirmed his "culture industry theory" and "critical theory", showing the capitalist culture industry negative spirit. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, who was a theorist of Frankfurt School, took two musicians Schoenberg and Stravinsky as a focal point of comment in his book The Philosophy of the Modern Music, in which he applies exquisite theories of sociology to conduct a profound and subtle research in modern music, and confirms his theory of cultural industry and theory of critique, and moreover, displays a kind of negative spirit against capitalist cultural industry