The Culture Industry

The Culture Industry

The Culture Industry is a theory made by Adorno and Horkheimer and is the idea that Music companies tell us what is good music. Also from this it makes forces artists to make certain types of music therefore cannot be original. Furthermore, due to these hegemonic capitalist practises artists are limited and determines whether they are going to be successful in the industry. Also the theory compares the music industry to a machine in which the input is the original artists and the output are the hegemonic artists which have been changed by the main companies. This takes the true talent out of the artists as they are just seen as commodities to the companies and they would do anything to get the most money out of them.