Adorno on Music

ISBN-13: 9780415162913 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 220 str.

Robert W. Witkin

Opis

More than half of the published works of Theodor Adorno were devoted to his studies in music. As his reputation has grown in recent years, however, Adorno's work on music has remained a neglected area because of its musicological complexity. This account of Adorno's texts on music takes a sociological perspective. In non-technical language, Robert Witkin guides the reader through the complexities of Adorno's argument about the link between music and morality and between musical works and social structure. It was through these works more than any others that Adorno established the right of the arts to be acknowledged as a moral and critical force in the development of a modern society. By recovering them for non-musicologists, Witkin adds immeasurably to our appreciation of this giant 20th-century thought.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 MUSICA MORALIA; Chapter 2 SOCIETY IN SONATA-FORM; Chapter 3 BEETHOVEN LATE AND SOON; Chapter 4 WAGNER; Chapter 5 BREAKING THE CODE; Chapter 6 MAHLER AND BERG; Chapter 7 SCHOENBERG; Chapter 8 STRAVINSKY; Chapter 9 THE CULTURE INDUSTRY AND ALL THAT JAZZ; Chapter 10 TAKING A CRITICAL LINE FOR A WALK; References Index;

O autorze

Robert W. Witkin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter and the author of Art and Social Structure (1995).