Haku

Theodor W. Adorno’s ideas on jazz and Igor Stravinsky’s neoclassicism (1936; 1949; 1963) are notorious for their strident criticism, pathologizing metaphors and prejudicial language. What has been overlooked, however, is ...

In the communication processes of Western art music, there is an inherent problem of “chain of command” versus performer’s creativity. Bluntly put, the composer, dead or alive, is held to be an authority that provides the ...