This article is about popular music, focusing in the relations built by music in face of capitalism’s expansion in the arts’ field. For this instance, the relations between objectivity and subjectivity will be the plot from where we will analyze the paradoxes in the process of modern popular music reproduction, such as: culture industry and the work of art in the age of its technological reproduction. So, starting from the Jamaican reggae, we seek to wise Adorno’s perspective about music investigation to an analysis where is possible to investigate the outlying artistic production, as the popular music that rises in Jamaica. This argument opened space to a discussion about the possibility of the phonographic industry have multiple actuation forms developed from its contingencies that are created by the singularities of its unequal way of work in face of different economic, political and cultural circumstances, keeping in sight that local realities are integrated to the capitalism mode of production.
Popular music; Jamaican reggae; Culture industry; Phonographic industry; Aesthetics