Gypsy Music

"The more totally the culture industry roots out all deviations, thus cutting off the medium from its intrinsic possibilities of development, the more the whole blaring dynamic business approaches a standstill." ... "no single measure follows from the logic of the musical progression--so the perennial fashion becomes the likeness of a planned congealed society" pg. 124-125, On Jazz



What about gypsy music? Yes, it lacks the atonality of Adorno's beloved avant garde but it also lacks the severe structural censorship of culturally popular music. Yes, it pertains to a culture (gypsy culture) but that particular culture is one that deviates, that contrasts its counterpart, which comes with music for the masses. This is not music for the charts, nor for profit. This music is for the story of a people, an expression not guided by an an agenda.


This particular woman sings about having children, about the happiness that would come with that and the strength it would give her. A table full of children and a full heart, and the woe that comes with not being able to have children. (Language is Romanian)

This is not the kind of message/topic you'd ever hear on the radio, and this is not the kind of music the profit-driven would push for.