This study reviews two influential texts in the sociology of music: Adorno’s Introduction to the Sociology of Music and DeNora’s Music in Everyday Life. In the former, Adorno regards music as social mediation, which not only can induce obedience but also enlighten and restructure people’s minds, whereas in the latter, DeNora conceptualises music as a technology of self—a means of accomplishing things. This study proposes that DeNora developed the thoughts of Adorno to acknowledge that music is a building material of consciousness and a mode of praxis and that individuals may use music to produce and structure their agency rather than to accompany the existing social order. The ideas of DeNora are considered a new direction in music sociology, with an ‘affective turn’ and a focus on everyday life. They return to the Adorno proposition but pay more attention to humanity’s search for social practice, agency, and hope.