Abstract:

Modernity is identified with some major changes experienced in economic, social and political life since the 17th Century. Especially understanding of culture and its reflections on art prompt many thinkers to re-consider a new social structure (order) and produce new theories in the light of modern changes. Amongthese, Sorokin and Adorno have remarkable approaches through culture and art. When Sorokin asserts that culture and art follow a cycle from ideal to sensualism; Adorno claims that music is evolved from an authentic meaning to ‘commodity’, ‘popular culture’ and ‘market orientation’.This study is an attempt to understand the effect of modernism on art in Turkish society by applying for Sorokin and Adorno’s views. For that purpose, music, which could cover this area, is chosen to examine. Especially some songs listened by a wide audience in Turkey are subjected to verbal an visual content analiysis

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