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Glamour or Gloom? Fitzgerald's Jazz Age

by Marithe Van der Aa
November 25, 2016

Many names have been given to the 1920s: the Roaring Twenties, the Golden Twenties, Les Années Folles and, of course, the Jazz Age. It was a decade fuelled by innovation and change; a time of movement: cars were becoming the favoured means of transportation, commercial airline flights were on the rise, social dancing was energetic and ...

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According To Adorno: A Portrait Of Jazz's Harshest Critic, Part 2

by Marithe Van der Aa
October 20, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 Though Adorno had many points of criticism regarding the technical aspects of jazz, his contempt for the music genre was fueled by something else. Given the fact that Adorno was best known for his critical theory of society, it is far from surprising that jazz would not escape a ...

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According to Adorno: A Portrait Of Jazz's Harshest Critic, Part 1

by Marithe Van der Aa
September 15, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 Though the vast majority of his writings on music dealt primarily with the classical tradition, Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) also devoted a considerable amount of attention to jazz. To say Adorno was skeptical of this dance music that had paddled its way across the Atlantic, would be a gross understatement ...