Jazz as critique : Adorno and black expression revisited / Fumi Okiji.
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TextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2018Description: 160 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781503605855 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 -- Aesthetics | Jazz -- History and criticism | Jazz -- Philosophy and aesthetics | African American musicians | African American aesthetics | Aesthetics, Black | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.6'5117 Summary: A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, 'Jazz As Critique' looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests, can provide insight into the controlling, destructive nature of modern society while offering a glimpse of more empathetic and less violent ways of being together in the world. Taking Adorno down a path he did not go, this book calls attention to an alternative sociality made manifest in jazz. In response to writing that tends to portray it as a mirror of American individualism and democracy, Fumi Okiji makes the case for jazz as a model of 'gathering in difference.'
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, 'Jazz As Critique' looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical potential of some musical traditions. Music, he suggests, can provide insight into the controlling, destructive nature of modern society while offering a glimpse of more empathetic and less violent ways of being together in the world. Taking Adorno down a path he did not go, this book calls attention to an alternative sociality made manifest in jazz. In response to writing that tends to portray it as a mirror of American individualism and democracy, Fumi Okiji makes the case for jazz as a model of 'gathering in difference.'
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