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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 00:47 | ||||
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Please READ what Adorno himself have to say about The Beatles: Follow the link: http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=dAZmVD_AV9cC&pg=RA1-PA420&lpg=RA1-PA420&dq=the+beatles+and+adorno&source=bl&ots=5TDdW4lE1n&sig=Rys0FGs9Fa1f5sqewXRUpzSX-P0&hl=es&ei=dDWrSt-OA-KDtgf4r82oCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=the%20beatles%20and%20adorno&f=false Edited by Alberto Muñoz - September 12 2009 at 00:48 |
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 00:55 | ||||
More Clear:
n the book Adorno by Stefan Mueller-Doohm, I found this quote on page 420: Adorno was keen to distinguish the Beatles from advanced modernity, whose condition could be measured by the progress of avant-garde art. /quote Adorno:/ "What can be urged against the Beatles is simply that what these people have to offer is something that is retarded in terms of it's own objective content. It can be shown that the means of expression that are employed and preserved here are in reality no more than traditional techniques in a degraded form." (Diskussion in the magazine Akzente, issue Summer 1965). |
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 00:56 | ||||
With this statement i don't think Adorno were sooo interest in "compose" beatles music
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 01:07 | ||||
http://www.tinhouse.com/mag/back_issues/archive/issues/issue_10/feature.html
Good reading i enjoy the perspective. |
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Sacred 22
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 12:12 | ||||
Do you realize what he is saying here? He is not saying that the Beatles are a degraded form but that the psychological technique employed via the Beatles is degraded. Another words and I must thank you for digging this up, is that they were being used to create culture, a means to an end if you will; on route to a fascist state. Do you realize that Adorno held the right to the Beatles music? Like I say, there is much more to this puzzle than most people can imagine
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 12:34 | ||||
Ya, well, I'll go with Lennon anyway. |
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 12:37 | ||||
Yes, but it rocks. |
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Dean
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 13:10 | ||||
Proof?
In 1965 Northern Songs was made into a public company with the Beatles owning 33% of the shares, Dick James and Charles Silver 37.5%, Epstein 7.5% and the rest traded on the London Stock Exchange. In 1969 James & Silver along with several of the smaller stock holders sold their shares to Lew Grade's ATV Music, realising that they could not gain control of Northern Songs Lennon & McCartney sold ATV their shares too. ATV owned Northern Songs until 1985 when the whole company was bought by Michael Jackson for a reported $47M ... source Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Songs)
..so what proof do you have that Theodor W. Adorno's estate held the rights to The Beatles Music? Was he part of, or connected to, Lew Grade's Associated TeleVision empire? Highly improbable without proof.
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 13:32 | ||||
Was he also the one who had the android to replace McCartney with after he died? |
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Catholic Flame
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 13:34 | ||||
Maybe Adorno was replaced with an android and he bought the shares? |
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Sacred 22
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 18:59 | ||||
Here is something to read about it
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Dean
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 20:21 | ||||
that's the most puerile pile of incoherrant nonsense I've ever read - even the chronology is arse-backwards:
No proof given, and actually not true: The word "beat generation" predates The Beatles by several years - there is even a 1959 US film called "The Beat Generation" - the movie tag line for which on it's original cinema release was "The wild, weird, world of the Beatniks! ...Sullen rebels, defiant chicks...searching for a life of their own! The pads...the jazz...the dives... those frantic "way-out" parties... beyond belief!"
..again no proof given, and it's a fanciful notion anyway - the words "teenage" and "rock" were in common usage 8 years before The Beatles found popularity in the USA:
"The Blackboard Jungle" - original 1955 tagline: 'A DRAMA OF TEEN-AGE Terror!
"Rebel Without A Cause" - original 1955 tagline: ''Teenage terror torn from today's headlines'
"The Girl Can't Help It" - original 1956 tagline: "Rock yourself into your happiest time with THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT" ...those words were introduced into England from America by such teen-movies as those I've listed and the general vocabulary of Rock'n'Roll that the music used in them carried. Before the advent of TV and the Internet, Films were the only way youth-culture was carried around the world - Rock'n'Roll music was brought to England in the soundtracks of them. Even then Beatles were heavily influenced by those films (their name was taken from the Marlon Brando film "The Wild Ones")
Eh? Those so-called trigger words were in use long before The Beatles and the breaking-away, separatation and fragmentation of society started in the mid 1950 (as documented in Rebel Without Cause and Blackbiard Jungle etc) actually led four lads form Liverpool to start a skiffle group in the first place, not the other way around.
anyway... I don't know whether the next quote made me laugh or cry - either way it certainly puts the whole diatribe into perspective:
...and you believe this drivel?
No - honestly, without proof this is meaningless. Edited by Dean - September 12 2009 at 20:36 |
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 20:42 | ||||
^ this is the really ugly part about this theory, it appears to be socio-politically driven. Ironic, as it rallies against the public manipulations [i.e. the entertainment business] it disfavors only to replace it with myths of bizarre proportions, and completely blind to the creative process it calls into question.
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 20:48 | ||||
Yes i read that in other forum I know that you going to cite your "source". I'll illuminate you. It's very simple. *Everyone* who drags Adorno into this mess turns out to be drawing on Coleman and on Coleman alone. Each of them is a mythomaniac and adds their own little something to the brew, just some little detail that gives the story a personal touch. But Coleman is a crook. In reality, no one could be more distanced from conspiracy and more active in the other end of the spectrum than Adorno, if you look at his actual work. This is why he is now being persecuted, i suppose, plus, it is convenient to pick someone who died decades ago and can't defend themselves. Watt is obviously part of some project with the mission to to delude people and deprive them of any sense of culture and belonging. People like me are not easy to mislead; I have strong cultural roots, and I have actively participated in forming those roots. But most younger U.S. people are easy targets, for a large number of reasons. |
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 20:57 | ||||
Adorno's trademark as a philosopher was that he
opposed everything mass media and mass culture or pop culture, and if
anyone here had read Coleman's actual statements, they would know for a
fact that *everything* that Coleman writes pertaining to the Beatles,
except for the drug connection, is a blatant hoax and very possibly the
weakest and most absurd conspiracy theory that ever existed. It seems
like a big joke. He actually states that Adorno wrote the music, and
also that the Beatles' music was atonal, and Bacchanial/Dionysian. It is the opposite to all that.
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Dean
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 21:03 | ||||
^ it's actually dafter than that - Coleman claims that Adorno wrote the music for all the British Invasion artists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Invasion_Artists
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 21:46 | ||||
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME01/The_sound_of_the_Beatles.shtml
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 21:46 | ||||
it reminds a bit of the Moon Landing theory (except for Coleman's homophobic quasi-religious agenda) which is so uninformed of the way physics, science and photography work that it's not even pushed by most theorists anymore
Coleman is a deeply angry, misinformed crusader who believes people don't actually do anything of freewill - put another way, that any influence on society is planned, and with malicious intent. What he fails to realize is that anyone and anything may have an affect on any other thing. That's just how it works, and his very article is proof of that. You go, Mr. Coleman, you're proving that individuals can impact others simply by expressing themself. Case in point; the Beatles. Wake up and smell the coffee, and then move on with your life. Edited by Atavachron - September 12 2009 at 22:02 |
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rogerthat
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 22:13 | ||||
I think it's hard for some people to accept the possibility of human talent reaching out to so many people. They think they have seen through a conspiracy to mass influence people when in reality they simply lack faith in the boundless potential of human endeavour and what could be more pathetic! I have met people who are genuinely indifferent to the Beatles and they are not the ones wasting time reading and trumpeting conspiracy theories, much less making them up, because they couldn't care less either way. Ergo, I have to conclude that the likes of Coleman are deeply resentful of talented bands like Beatles.
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 12 2009 at 22:16 | ||||
exactly
interesting idea |
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