Adorno, Jazz and Racism
"Uber Jazz" and the 1934-7 British Jazz Debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evelyn Wilcock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 1996 |
| Issue | 107 |
| Pages | 63-80 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0396107063 |
| OpenAlex | W2314382219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Discussions of Adorno's “Abschied vom Jazz” (“Goodbye to Jazz” — 1933) and “Über Jazz” (“On Jazz” — 1936) have focused on his association of jazz with the commercial music industry and his failure to credit jazz as black music. Given Adorno's views on mass culture, this is hardly surprising. The issues he tackled and the vocabulary he used, however, were those current in Britain, where Adorno wrote “Über Jazz” while completing a doctorate on Husserl at Merton College, Oxford. Seen in the context of broader British debates concerning racism and popular culture, “Uber Jazz” reveals a rich picture of Adorno's concerns at the time. His initial perspective on jazz had been that of a music critic who thought jazz was wrongly represented in new music
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Dance · Jazz · Jazz dance · Literature · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |