On Fri, 26 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "high" art and "low" art, Wagner versus "mass music". I
> never see jazz in the way that Adorno sees. What about the aesthetic
> beauty of Moroccon jazz? or Cuban jazz? or Jamaican jazz?
Adorno is useless vis-a-vis jazz. He didn't know the great jazz modernisms
and never bothered to learn. Nor did he know zip about cinema or the
cartoon or Third World revolutions. For those genres, you need folks like
Sartre and Jameson, Spivak and Ngugi.
What Adorno does give us, though, is an unparalleled set of tools to
analyze the Second World, the border-zone between the metropole and
periphery. Put another way, he wrote operating system kernel for
the global Left, rather than end-user applications or middleware.
-- Dennis
