Adorno is pretty hardcore - some of what he writes, with regard to the synthesis of the spirit of music into a commercial product, does hit home I feel, but a lot of it seems to be the writings of a man desparately trying to cling onto something that was fast disappearing whilst technology washed over him like a huge wave.
He was writing at a time when many of the great composers of the early 20th century had just passed away or were coming to the end of their lives, and of course the likes of Schoenberg were beginning to make their mark with Serialism, so you can sense his despair, but his perspective just seems, if not dated, just out of place given the state of modern music and its relationship with technology. -----Original Message----- From: JT Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 January 2008 15:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Martin Dust; 313 313 Subject: Re: (313) C2 at Carnegie Hall, well sort of sorry, i was a media production major and had to study him extensively... his views on music are considered a bit fascist (although he himself ran from the nazi's), he had an absolute hatred for anything that was not "high-culture", which of course included the whole of black culture. here's the relevant bit from his wikipedia page "In 1936, the Zeitschrift featured one of Adorno's most controversial texts, "On Jazz" ("Über Jazz"). It should be noted that "jazz" was frequently used to refer to all popular music at the time of Adorno's writing. This article was less an engagement with this style of music than a first polemic against the blooming entertainment and culture industry. Adorno believed the culture industry was a system by which society was controlled though a top-down creation of standardized culture that intensified the commodification of artistic expression. Extensive correspondence with Horkheimer, who was then living in exile in the United States, led to an offer of employment in America." on the surface, you can even slightly agree with it, but his views are absolutely uncompromising, absolutely anti-social, and biased towards his own supposed elite experience with high-brow classical music and academia. On Jan 11, 2008 10:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't..... > > all i know about adorno is that i studied his text books in > highschool history of art class > > i guess wikipedia is my friend though.... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > Da : Martin Dust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : 313 313 <313@hyperreal.org> > Oggetto : Re: (313) C2 at Carnegie Hall, well sort of > > Data : Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:16:35 +0000 > > > On 11 Jan 2008, at 15:06, JT Stewart wrote: > > > > > adorno and horkheimer published most of their stuff in > > the 40's. > > > > > Got ya... > > > > m > For all the latest news and comment visit www.telegraph.co.uk. This message, its contents and any attachments to it are private, confidential and may be the subject of legal privilege. Any unauthorised disclosure, use or dissemination of the whole or part of this message (without our prior written consent) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. Incoming and outgoing telephone calls to our offices may be monitored or recorded for training and quality control purposes and for confirming orders and information. Telegraph Media Group Limited is a limited liability company registered in England and Wales (company number 451593). Our registered office address is: 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 0DT.
