Adorno is someone who frequently mistook his personal preferences for universal truths, but he is a very smart and observant person who is worth engaging with s

Adorno is someone who frequently mistook his personal preferences for universal truths, but he is a very smart and observant person who is worth engaging with seriously. > On the whole I believe that the very act of performing music on television entails a certain displacement that is detrimental to musical concentration and the meaningful experience of music. I think this is largely correct, and I'd go further -- that even concert settings can be detrimental to the meaningful experience of music. Forget classical or pop music or jazz or whatever other style of music Adorno thought everyone should listen to. It's a frequent complaint of dance music enthusiasts and just music fans in general that crowds focus to much on looking at what the DJ is doing or taking pictures with their phone instead of _dancing_ and living in the moment. I mean everyone is free to take what enjoyment they want out of whatever experience they want, but I do think that music is primarily meant to be enjoyed through listening and (often) dancing, and anything that distracts from that makes the experience less about music as music and more about something else -- music as a mere soundtrack for spectacle or celebrity or whatever rather than something to be enjoyed on its own terms.