Adorno on Political Pop Music

[AmateurAgitator]

we have a whole thread on Cardew

the curious communist compositions of Cornelius Cardew

Cardew's been someone on my radar for years, and while i knew he became a maoist in his later years, i'd never heard the music he produced after giving up the avant-garde until the other night. in some ways, it's much odder than his earlier experimental stuff - i guess lyrically rather naive...

www.urban75.net

Thankyou. I was completely unaware.

 

[Knotted]

He would have hated that.

 

[danny la rouge]

Ah, a Dwyer/Gorski thread. What fun.

 

[Knotted]

There's some great posts by fruitloop in there though.

 

[hitmouse]

I feel like this goes here:

eta their bandcamp is here:

Oidorno

Oidorno. Hamburg, Germany.

oidorno.bandcamp.com

All in German though.

 

[NoXion]

I tried to read the thread from the beginning, but I'm still not sure what Adorno was trying to get at.

 

[belboid]

I tried to read the thread from the beginning, but I'm still not sure what Adorno was trying to get at.

https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/91838/original/Adorno%2B-%2BOn%2BPopular%2BMusic.pdf

there you go. Its a very easy to read essay (for Adorno). Reminds me of that Rick Beato thing from the other week when he was moaning pop music wasn't as good as it used to be