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...... Essentially, Adornos work focuses more on art, literature, and music as focal points towards humanitys mode of thought. Much as Marx saw a hierarchy of defined wealth, Adorno finds the needs of freedom, creativity, and self-actualization to be absent within the construct of mass-produced culture. Culture becomes, in many ways, its own set of industrial producers of art designed in part to appease the masses, but primarily to earn capital reward for the industry (Witkin, 2002). We must remember that Adorno died in 1969, and had yet to see what the new social medium of the Internet; MTV, YouTube, MP3 Players, Cable Television and Radio, and certainly DVD and Motion Picture changes, would have on popular culture. However, even without the rapid changes in musical culture, Adorno was a staunch critic of much of what he saw as mindless drivel that fails to allow the expression of true art (Miklitsch, 2002, pp. 43-55)
Three major points within Adornos Social Critique of Radio Music are directly applicable to David Cook: 1) the idea and/or definition of what is good music; 2) standardization and the role of the audience in the popular genre, and; 3) the effect of presentation on

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