Adorno's Aesthetics of Music

Name: Adorno's Aesthetics of Music
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ISBN: 9780521626088

ISBN-10: 0521626080

ISBN-13: 9780521626088

Edition: 1995

Authors: Max Paddison

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The main aim of this book is to provide a conceptual context within which to situate Adorno's writings on music. It has quickly established itself as a classic text. Paddison surveys the early writings from the 1920s and examines Adorno's idiosyncratic reception of Marx and Freud. He then discusses Adorno's approach to analysis, and to the sociology of music, and his philosophy of history. The study closes with a critical assessment of Adorno's concept of musical material in the context of his best-known book Philosophy of New Music.

Book details

List price: $55.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Adorno in context



Reading Adorno



Considerations on method



Constellations: towards a critical method



The writings on music: a thematic outline



History, nature, second nature: the debates with Lukacs and Benjamin



The problem of form: Bartok, Hindemith, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School



Towards a critical method: levels of interpretation



The development of a theory of musical material



Theories of artistic material: precursors and contemporaries



The Adorno-Krenek debate



On the social situation of music



The problem of mediation



Hegel: mediation and the dialectic



Adorno's Marxian model: the social mediation of music



Freud: art and sublimation



Max Weber adapted; rationality and mimesis



A material theory of form



The immanent dialectic of musical material



Immanent analysis: Berg, Sonata op. 1



Adorno's interpretation of Berg: critique and commentary



Proposals for a material theory of musical form



Social content and social function



The social dialectic of musical material



Musical production



Musical reproduction (I): performance



Musical reproduction (II): distribution



Musical consumption



The historical dialectic of musical material



Adorno's philosophy of music history



Bach and the style galant



Beethoven and Berlioz



Wagner and Brahms



Debussy and Mahler



The disintegration of musical material



Issues in the philosophy of New Music



The decline of the modern



Concluding remarks


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index of names


Subject index