Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming real…

Theodor Adorno
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Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno (1982). Prisms, p.132, MIT Press
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Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno (1982). Prisms, p.132, MIT Press

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