Adorno's Aesthetics of Music

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by Max Paddison

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published August 1998, 390 pages, paper

ISBN 0521626080

New in paper! (F98)

Paddison situates Adorno's writings on music, 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 Philosophy of New Music

Table of ContentsConstellations: towards a critical method
The development of a theory of musical material
The problem of mediation
A material theory of form
Social content and social function
The historical dialectic of musical material
The disintegration of musical material