Thursday, April 21, 2016
Music Outside Adorno's Critique
One of the reasons that Adorno dislikes jazz music is because jazz music, regardless of its improvisation, is always formulaic. If we consider the the ordinary sounds happening around us as music, then perhaps music of daily life, as a process, could be considered music that remains outside Adorno's critique. The class silence that makes Professor Naddaff feel uncomfortable and the sounds of papers being passed around in class are not subject to a formulated pattern that appeals to emotion. We do not ask or desire for the natural sounds/music that occurs around us. These sounds/music come in different patterns that make us feel uncomfortable because no pattern is ever predictable and act as a force that helps us realize how to be. Moreover, music as a natural process is similar to air. Both are distributed freely and are not able to be packaged, sold and perpetuated onto others--they are nature itself.
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