(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Kitchen Table Kibitzing 13 June: toward an accordion-free 21st Century proletarian music [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-13 Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that many who post in this series already know one another to some degree, but we welcome guests at our kitchen table and hope to make some new friends as well. Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time, is a book by Mark Abel on Marxian aesthetics that can addresses a trivial question: can there be proletarian music that has no accordions,. Considering the 19th Century origins of that instrument, it is both an ideal and an anachronistic question. Musical groups and individuals have made it a staple of certain musical genres. History is the content of artworks. To analyze artworks means no less than to become conscious of the history immanently sedimented in them.28 Experiencing an artwork is the duality of, on the one hand, an a priori continuity of time as experience, or lived time; and, on the other, an abstract time composed of instants. Rationalisation in art is understood as the mimesis of the instrumental rationalisation of society, rather than simply an instance of it. Jazz as ‘the objectivity of the agreed musical form – chord – acts as the basis for the free expression (individuated subjectivity) of all’. There is a punctuated equilibrium of sound to which some genres of music might correspond, including jazz. Adorno considers some music as resisting status quo or genre forms, like there could be an anti-traditional polka music where The cult of the machine which is represented by unabating jazz beats involves a self-renunciation . . Four Elements of Groove: Metronomic Time Syncopation ‘Deep metricality’ or Multi-levelled Meter Back-beat x x I almost went to a live musical gig in of all places NJ on 5 June where the three-band supergroup called Lucky Moon Zooz consisting of a collaboration of Moon Hooch, Lucky Chops and Too Many Zooz, who are beginning a Summer tour that will include Europe. I like the premodern and preindustrial nature of non-electronic musical groups because it signifies pre-electronic cultures (yes it uses PA systems). x x x x x x Adorno suggests that, in internalising the rationality of the external world to an extreme degree, the artwork sets up resistance to it and at the same time goes beyond it’.61 www.goodreads.com/... Adorno puts the relationship between mimesis and rationality like this: Artworks oppose domination by mimetically adapting to it. If they are to produce something that is different in kind from the world of repression, they must assimilate themselves to repressive behaviour….. Here rationalisation in art is understood as the mimesis of the instrumental rationalisation of society, rather than simply an instance of it. (168) But the argument he makes about interpretation may be relevant to music whose genesis comes about through forms of improvisation or ‘jamming’, practices which are inherently collective in nature; that is, those in which the distinction between composition and performance that Adorno took for granted appears blurred. This applies to a large part of popular music; not only to jazz, a music in which improvisation takes place during its performance, but also to other forms of popular music, in which much of the division of labour between composers and performers normal in the art music tradition has often given way to a compositional process involving a degree of collective practical experimentation by the performers.83 (179) Terry Eagleton comments along similar lines on the concept of individuation: We are, by nature, sociable animals who must cooperate or die; but we are also individual beings who seek our own fulfilment. To be individuated is an activity of our species-being, not a condition at odds with it. Eagleton goes on to suggest a jazz group as a model of this relationship, where ‘the free musical expression of each member act[s] as the basis for the free expression of the others’.87 Actually this formulation is not specific enough as it does not emphasise each individual’s responsibility to the maintenance of the objective structures which guarantee the free expression of others. www.goodreads.com/... Favorite group: Polkacide (hoping that the YouTube videos above posted, please let me know if you can’t see them and I will post the links. 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