Jazz

[kelley]

At 03:43 AM 1/20/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Who denies this? In fact, the theoretical point was masde with great 
>richness and complexity by Gramsci; Lukacs was a literary critic; Marx 
>himself,w hile not making a theoretical broughaha about it, wove literaure 
>(in particular) in the frabric of hsi writing (see S. Prawer's wonderful 
>Karl Marx and World Literature); the CPUSA, despite its theoretical 
>primativeness, made "cultural hegemony" a major point of the pop front: 
>the New Masses, proletarian literature; the folk music movement, the 
>Hollywood screenwriters. Alan Wald has a study of thsi--has it been 
>publsihed? I mean in an accessible, non-journalsitic form. Ina ddition, 
>there is his work on the New York Intellectuals, about the anti-Stalinist 
>left, who were critics and writers, one and all. --jks

when i said abstract, i didn't mean that it was above the heads of anyone. 
although i do think that one has to learn how to appreciate (criticize) art 
and music. rather, i meant that it was not concrete.  it was dissociated 
from the art work itself.  what exactly about 'the drum also waltzes' 
prefigures utopia, for example?