in the other direction, decay was great for improvement cause it forced you to play on main even when you were experimenting or learning so you didn't rust too much, it forced you make time for it and to remain applied and practiced
real power users don't try to change anything upstream they just solve their own problems (and ideally have enough shame that they don't tell anyone about their ugly hacks)
to be more fair i should say "adorno had some good points when discussing jazz" because the arguments aren't exclusive nor exhaustive of jazz and i feel like thats fairly obvious but w/e
the specific fetish character of music lies in this quid pro quo. the feelings which go to the exchange value create the appearance of immediacy at the same time as the absence of a relation to the object belies it.
it has its basis in the abstract character of exchange value. every ‘psychological’ aspect, every ersatz satisfaction, depends on such social substitution.
it can be asked whom music for entertainment still entertains. rather, it seems to complement the reduction of people to silence, the dying out of speech as expression, the inability to communicate at all.