Taruskin really hates Adorno, and especially objects to the way popular music studies use Adorno, despite Adorno's own quite explicit condemnation of popular music. They they explain that away, and continue to use Adorno. Taruskin can be quite hilarious on how musicologists trained on the classics behave when analyzing popular genres. They fall in fandom or condescension or slumming of various kinds. Jazz musicologists trained in jazz don't do this; it seems particular to people who began in classical music and then try to approach popular genres.
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