[microsound] Adorno redux

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Its nice to see some kind of defense of poor old Adorno on this list.

I second this and feel that Adorno's crit of the culture industry is 
spot on - even more so today...while I don't necessarily agree with 
Adorno's stance on Jazz (yet I came to appreciate dodecaphonic music in 
a new way thru his writings) I do see some validity in what he is 
trying to express on that subject...and I also agree with Bill's 
comment(s): "Adorno was rather looking at culture after industrial 
capitalism to interrogate its most degrading aspects." And while some 
people dismiss Adorno as a old school Marxist cultural curmudgeon (who 
couldn't dance) I see most current (mis)readings of his work as simply 
privileged and bourgeois. I think Adorno is very much needed in these 
times.
Also, reading the Situationists work a little closer might reveal some 
irony a filter-feeding first reading at Uni might miss.
Lastly, not only is electronic music dead but maybe post-modernism 
needs a funeral too?


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