Karlien's analysis of an historical episode in the
history of music is very much the sort of thing I
lament Adorno for lacking, except that I have
difficulty with Ken Bolton if he's suggesting that
Adorno is against dancing and against fun; there
is a kind of dancing and a kind of fun to be done
with Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Stockhausen which
I know few willing to try, so they dismiss it as
not dancing and not fun; plus it's harder to hear
the three S's silences and subtle uses of very quiet
passages (which Frank Sinatra as a club singer had
to eschew) when there's so much very consistently
loudly recorded very consistently loud music being
blared out of everyone's car and room windows at
this point in our culture; shout louder, or shout
more charismatically, but how about working for
everyone not to so much? One kind of fun and dance
often disallows another, I like both, but 4 some 1
kind of fun and dance is groovy and you're uncool
to snigger, another is immediately laughed at,
including by those in the soi-disant utopian
theoretical and literary avant-garde, which
continues to be not an artistic avant-garde
with its conservative tastes in music.
Stuart, that's my response to Sinatra's
silence and Mozart's silence; the latter allows the
former (the noise-level of Sinatra is still shocking,
as it was in its time, to an ear able to hear all
of Mozart's quiet *sound*) as not the former the latter.
And what do you know about Adorno if you don't deal
with, close-up, half of his published work: the musicology?
" Speaking as a supporter many positions supported
by Fredric Jameson - who wrote much in defence of Adorno -
I want to distance myself from_everything_ Adorno wrote
about music. "
everything is half of everything
Ira
On Sat, 16 May 1998 00:47:16 +0100 (BST) Karlien van den
Beukel wrote:
.......
> But Adorno was to be reconciled with the truth in a poem
which Ken Bolton
> wrote which is called "At Work":
>
> I turn the radio
> way down: I want to write
> a poem
>
> & today I can't
> with the radio on
> On the other hand
>
> They've promised
> the Dynamic Hepnotics
> & I'm hanging out for them
>
> thinking of Adorno-
> would he 'like'
> "The Hepno Beat"?
>
> Ideally *Yes"
> but he was
> Formed By His Time
>
> never got to Dance
> to the Hepno Beat
> or see
>
> the live film clip
> on Countdown this week
> or read Jody' article
>
> in this Art & Text
> where his name figures prominently
> much loved
>
> where rock n roll's
> inadequacy
> is discussed & his lack of
>
> love for it
> regretted
> Adorno ripped
>
> & out of it, raging,
> at Crab's Cocktail Hour
> I'd love to see
>
> glasses, shining,
> a mild cigar, in his hand,
> waving
>
> And like me tonight
> on his feet
> *white shoes!*
>
> Perhaps he smiles on us
> from above, & thinks
>
> Yep
> Within the contradictions
> I guess Let them have their fun!
>
>
>
> Yes let them.
>
>
> Karlien
>
>
>
>
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