Teoria crítica frankfurtiana e o rock and roll: resistência ao conformismo e à pseudoformação?

Abstract

This theoretical research, associated to the Education, Society and Culture Research Line, of the Postgraduate Program in Education - PPGE at PUC Goiás, based on Adorno (1986), Adorno (1989), Adorno (1995), Adorno (2004), Adorno (2011), Adorno (2012), among other authors, aims to understand Rock and Roll in the light of the dialectical method of Frankfurt's Critical Theory in interface with the formative process, considering the challenges presented by the Cultural Industry in current society. From this perspective, it investigates whether Rock and Roll contributes to resistance to conformism and pseudoeducation in the Cultural Industry. Thus, the research is structured into three chapters that establish an interrelationship. The first reflects on historical aspects relating to the Frankfurt School, the Cultural Industry and Rock and Roll. The second seeks to understand the contradictory elements underlying Rock and Roll and the Cultural Industry in connection with Rock and Roll. The third points out the impacts brought by the Cultural Industry to the formative process of individuals. It is inferred, from the theoretical framework studied, that individuals will only resist the subtleties of the Cultural Industry, which are also present in Rock and Roll, and the pseudo-education engendered by it, through an education that dialogues with aesthetics (Schiller, 2010; Adorno, 2011), with a view to critical self-reflection (Adorno, 2012), a fundamental condition for subjects to achieve emancipation and, thus, be capable of autonomy to make their own decisions (Kant, 2005)