Adorno on Music

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Psychology Press, 1998 - 213 páginas
Adorno is one of the leading cultural thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first detailed account of Adorno's texts on music from a sociological perspective. In clear, 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 largely through these works 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 of twentieth-century thought.

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Musica moralia
1
Society in sonataform
28
Beethoven late and soon
50
Wagner
70
Breaking the code
94
Mahler and Berg
108
Schoenberg
129
Stravinsky
144
The culture industry and all that jazz
160
Taking a critical line for a walk
181
References
201
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Robert W. Witkin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter and the author of Art and Social Structure (1995).

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