Berthold Hoeckner

Apparitions

Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780815335719
• ISBN-10: 0815335717
• Artikelnr.: 21291632

Autorenporträt

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 GermanMusic and the Hermeneutics of the Moment.

Inhaltsangabe

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