"Sell Out with Me Tonight"

[Mark Thibodeau]

Re: The Wire

Who could possibly prefer season 2 to season 4?!

:-)

Jerky

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 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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