Pynchon Radio Programme/: adorno on popular music

[Michael Joseph]

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>   unlike the author of the article, i consider this thesis to be among
> the more
>   inspired things naumann has uttered. along with rolf dieter brinkmann adorno
>   is the most pynchonesque gestalt on the german corner. but why was
> teddy (in
>   contrary to brinkmann who, like trp, loved monk and heard him play live) such
>   an enemy of jazz? it's not so much, as naumann suggests, that adorno
> would not
>   have been able to dig deeper into the jazz thing: fact is he did not
> want to
>   do this. he had, sad to say, made up his mind on jazz before he came to
>   america. seriously i doubt that adorno ever listened to artists like bird,
>   miles, or trane. but of course he read a lot to brush up his
> arguments, first


Wonder if ever bothered to listen to Stravinsky.


Michael