Adorno saw Stravinsky’s neoclassicism as reactionary ideological escape

Evidence

To Adorno, Stravinsky represented an antipsychological, neoclassical “objectivism,” which ignored the alienation and contradictions of modern society and returned to prebourgeois tonal forms such as the dance. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 558

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno linked neoclassical musical objectivism to fascist ideology — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 558; Stravinsky’s technique encodes demagoguery through extrinsic categories rather than total structure — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 82