Listen types of music and the principles of social recognition

Abstract

  One of Th.W.Adorno's works, “The philosophy of the contemporary music,” intended to explore the process in which the atonal music, which had appeared to realize freedom of the composition, became a deductive system of the twelve-ton technic (by Schönberg). It also attempted to protect freedom (expressive-dynamic listen type) against the repressing principle in the music (rhythm-space listen type in the neo-sachlichkeit). As he suggested, music and styles of listening to music reflect objectively the sociophilosophical problems such as regression of the “consistent understanding” through the development of technology. I don't think, however, that Adorno sufficiently solved the antinomy between structural consistency of a spirit and an intentionless stratum of musical materials. For this reason I consider it necessary to reconstruct his observation from a point of view that can graps and categorize totally the change of history, people's social life styles, and types of affective responses, including habits and customs.