Adorno e o jazz

Music Criticism and Adorno

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

O F E E

Within the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics the free energy of a phase gives a measure of its associated probabilistic weight. In order to determine phase boundaries one must then determine the conditions under which the free energy difference (FED) between two phases is zero. The underlying complexity usually rules out any analytical approaches to the problem, and one must theref...

Readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke

On Jazz

The question of what is meant by "jazz" seems to mock the clear-cut definitive answer. Just as the historical origins of the form arc disappearing into the fog of the recent past, so its range is disappearing within its ambivalent use at the present moment. For the purpose of providing a crude orientation, one could concede that it is that type of dance music--whether it be used in an unmediate...

Dr. E. O. Lewis

Born in 1882 in the Rhondda Valley, he graduated in 1903 at Aberystwyth and Went on to St. John's College, Cambridge, Where, after taking his B.A. degree, he Was appointed University Demonstrator in Experimental Psychology. In 1915, after a short period abroad, he returned to Cambridge to carry out research at Littleton House Special School, in conjunction with the University Psychological Labo...