"Sell Out with Me Tonight"

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 23.08.2014 12:31, schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:

>  As much
> as I recommend Adorno's thoughts on classical music, one shouldn't
> overestimate what he has to say on popular music. And TV-serials like
> "Mad Men", "Breaking Bad" or "The Wire" (at least the first three
> seasons are solid gold) can in their artistic complexity not be
> explained with the relative simple model of the Kulturindustrie, which
> was born in World War two and thus always emphasizes the relation of
> media output and political propaganda.

My take, not being an expert on Adorno, much less classical music: The 
guy did not understand the first thing about popular music. Given the 
choice, he probably he would have preferred Yes to early Beatles...

I am sticking with Robert Christgau: "(...) unless we can somehow 
recycle the concept of the great artist so that it supports Chuck Berry 
as well as it does Marcel Proust, we might as well trash it altogether."

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/berry-76.php

"The Wire" is simply astounding.

Thomas



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