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all this is to say that "Adorno hated jazz" isn't just reductive + unproductive for music studies, but wrong. the fact that a take is easy to take up doesn't entail a warrant to not poke at whether it actually holds up.

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it's a mess, but it's also not something wholly unexpected from Adorno – in a word, it's his style.

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the passage is full of lines of thought that may seem contradictory to one another – some awful, some genuinely insightful on their own, others narrative.

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the place of said line can be interpreted in the (longass) passage as one response to the (inadequate) idea that jazz is irrational + transcends rationality because of ~the listener~.

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