Re: Ernst Bloch on Jazz

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I seem to remember a Lloyd Spencer whose reactions to the 'Frankfurt
School' went a bit deeper than all this school-marmish 'I was
startled' and 'I was staggered' ... 'how unedifying' stuff. Whether
or not Lloyd did the Soweto jive or not, there was a time when he
knew that the concept 'culture industry' was coined to come to terms
with some uncomfortable parallels between the Nazi attack on the
intellectuals in the Weimer Republic, and what the mass media are
doing to the world today. Including in South Africa, for that matter.
Put in that context, Bloch and Adorno are not all that ridiculous -
more like reminders of a time when intellectuals did not pander to
populist esthetics.

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Dr. Frederik van Gelder
Institut fuer Sozialforschung
Frankfurt University
Senckenberganlage 26
60325 Frankfurt am Main

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