Philosophy of new music in Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno's study titled Philosophy of New Music can be understood as expanded excursus of Dialectics of Enlightenment. This excursus is one of the part of these study. In this thesis, Adorno's new music understanding is examined in context of culture industry. In this framework, it's discoursed culture industry's relation with art as metaphysics background. Culture industry is a situation of culture which used machanisms of the late period of capitalism. Concepts of culture industry are concepts of status quo. These concepts are approved without analyzing by humans. By means of mechanisms of culture industry, consciousness is integrated with conformity. Art influenced reason system of Enlightenment. Reason of Enlightenment has an effect upon art. In this period art is exposed to conformist press of enlightenment's culture industry system. Under this impress art, objects are produced as commodities of culture industry. Unlike to status quo Schoenberg, who is composer of new music, rationalise music. This understanding reject to comply with culture industry. Conversely Stravinsky's music is conformist. It's hard to say that this music is revolutionist. Rather than this music is constructive. Adorno defends to rationality in new music. According to him, music should represent social antinomies in accordance with formal laws. In this thesis we tried to analyze Adorno's new music understanding and how be should understand new music.