Well, you're talking different things here. Doug's talking interest and you're talking exposure. A. is focused solely on things western in Dialectics of Enlightenment, if I remmeber correctly. And I am also under the impression that Weber's nonwestern studies have not been uncritically accepted.
frances
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote:
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> Ummm, I don't know for certain whether Adorno actually ever listened to
> Indian music, but he was a student--figuratively--of Max Weber and Weber's
> sociology of music does take up nonwestern music. Gad, I haven't read that
> since I was a sophomore so I'm recalling that it was something on the order
> of a rather universalizing account of the progress of musical development.
> Does anyone know if I'm right/wrong? So, on some level, Adorno must have
> known something--at least theoretically--about it and, I'd imagine, he may
> well just have been worldly enough to have heard it on occassion.
> Afterall, wasn't Adorno from a rather wealthy family. I really can't
> imagine that a wealthy German family didn't have exposure to such music,
> even if only for the purpose of exoticizing it.
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> Kelley
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