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his own identity to the reaction of instinct, Frankfurt school as a cultural elite tone to Hegel and Marx "alienation" since critical thinking and analytical popular culture, and the British research is the history of the socialist realistic attitude, highlighted the working class of British society "common culture" contributions, The Frankfurt school on popular culture has taken the attitude of the boycott and beyond, the British research is to working class culture, spare no effort and name redeemed; The Frankfurt school for "elite culture" be deprived of show the extremely reluctant, big useful to "ought to" against "solid but" meaning, and the British research is carefully verification working class cultural reality legitimacy, more to be for "real ran" to "ought to" status; In the Frankfurt school there, mass culture because of less than their aesthetic interest and will cause the political incompetence, and British cultural studies are of the opinion that the working class way of life, not only in politics is legitimate, and itself is a kind of cultural experience. From the Frankfurt school to British culture research, involved in the path of the popular culture of the change and to some degree in the contemporary culture embodies the criticism of an irresistible trend, among them, aesthetic interest or political reality as a starting point, is the important opportunity of change.
Aesthetic criticism from the start
If we can lineages and family background from the point of view of, so the Frankfurt school's critical on popular culture almost doomed. Frankfurt school important members of the first generation, have an unavoidable, important common features, that is, they all come from the rich jewish merchant family, the haim, adorno, Benjamin, marcuse is so. Hannah arendt, according to the statement, the last century in the 20 s around, from this kind of family jewish youth, many are "claimed that become a genius, or committed to human happiness, like those of a very wealthy family from the communist-in short resolve to be higher than the cause of money," and their father, usually only accept this kind of excuses, forgive them and not a like yourself are walking that successful life, and continue to financially help them [4].
Although this is for rich jewish family in constructing the between father and son to solve the conflict about life goal wrote down the passage, we from that, it of jewish descent to indulge in the ideal, beyond the realistic the praise highly of temperament and obey. Adorno, the youngest in Frankfurt, is also the most conceit, elite sense of the best fully a, her grandmother and mother are Germany famous singer, the land of his birth from Frankfurt to provide the traditional Music training. Can say, adorno's a born absorb the "great music environment" in [5]. It is conceivable that adorno's such a scholar, he for popular music contempt almost is born with. As early as in 1936, adorno has not had been to the United States, has not yet become members of the academic groups, Frankfurt, he has already published a criticism of the jazz paper "on jazz". Adorno's negative contempt is the jazz have expressed the possibility of liberation, "jazz is strictly goods", can give a person with a false sense of coming back to the nature, actually is all social skills of the product. Adorno's later admitted, his dislike of Jazz, from the "first read 'Jazz' (Jazz) the word was fear", because of the word and German Ha