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Philosophy Of New Jazz: Reconstructing Adorno, Dustin Bradley Garlitz
Philosophy Of New Jazz: Reconstructing Adorno, Dustin Bradley Garlitz
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Theodor W. Adorno, the towering twentieth century German intellectual figure and distinctive musical thinker, was legendary for being over-critical of jazz music. Through a consideration at his admiration for avant-garde chamber and symphonic music, I plan to develop a position that, surprisingly, points towards a theory of unacknowledged acceptance of jazz. The style of jazz that will be the newly constructed musical idiom of admiration for Adorno will be of the heterodox variety. My method of reconstruction will be to interrogate the inconsistencies in Adorno's critical musical writings, and negate such negations with factual evidence of affirmation found in the …