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Theodor Adorno’s ”On Jazz”

Theory & Philosophy

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What's So Great About Classical Music Theory?

Jaz is not simply reducible to a kind of form, it very much complies to theoretical structures and to theoretical ideas. Adorno confuses what music can be in itself to how it is appropriated. It says everything about that culture that appropriates it. And so therefore, anyone who bought into it is simply a prime victim orprime candidate for fachism.

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