Apparitions: Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music / Edition 1

by Berthold Hoeckner

Overview

Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and how these theories, in turn, have affected the study of contemporary art music, popular music, and jazz.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815335719
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/03/2005
Series:	Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Berthold Hoeckner is Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Berthold HoecknerChapter 1 Drifting: The Dialectics of Adorno's Philosophy of New Music Daniel Chua Chapter 2 Labor and Metaphysics in Hindemith's and Adorno's Prescriptions on CounterpointKeith ChapinChapter 3 Frankfurt School Blues: Rethinking Adorno's Critique of Jazz James BuhlerChapter 4 'Die Zerstörung der Symphonie': Adorno and the Theory of RadioLarson PowellChapter 5 Music, Corporate Power, and the Age of the Unending WarMartin ScherzingerChapter 6 Dire cela, sans savoir quoi. The question of meaning in Adorno and in the Musical Avantgarde Gianmario BorioChapter 7 'The Elliptical Geometry of Utopia': New Music since AdornoJulian JohnsonChapter 8 Wolfgang Rihm and the Adorno LegacyAlastair WilliamsNotesIndex