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Adorno's Aesthetics of Music Max Paddison (University of Durham)

Adorno's Aesthetics of Music By Max Paddison (University of Durham)

Adorno's Aesthetics of Music by Max Paddison (University of Durham)

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This book provides an introduction to T. W. Adorno's aesthetics and sociology of music. The difficulties of reading Adorno are confronted at the outset, and the author offers conceptual maps for tracing the main themes of Adorno's work.

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Adorno's Aesthetics of Music by Max Paddison (University of Durham)

This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly established itself as a classic text.

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'Paddison guides responsible readers back and forth between his own work and Adorno's in a stunning process of dialectical illumination. In addition, Paddison's control of his material has given him the perspective to go beyond mere emulation of Adorno's methods to a useful critique of his musical enterprise ... It is a book that one can present without embarrassment to graduate students conversant with the most up-to-date intellectual currents; even in the shifting sands of the increasingly postmodernist university, Paddison's book, like Adorno's work, has not only the sharp intelligence but also the irreducible multivalence to hold its own as a focus of study ... [this] is a book that both in its contents and in its example constitutes an utterly reliable as well as endlessly rich guide to what may be the most important and most difficult musical thought of the century now passing. Max Paddison has written a magnum opus.' Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Journal of the Royal Musical Association

Table of Contents

1. Constellations: towards a critical method; 2. The development of a theory of musical material; 3. The problem of mediation; 4. A material theory of form; 5. Social content and social function; 6. The historical dialectic of musical material; 7. The disintegration of musical material.

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NPB9780521626088
9780521626088
0521626080
Adorno's Aesthetics of Music by Max Paddison (University of Durham)
Max Paddison (University of Durham)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1997-10-30
392
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