Philosophy Of New Music
Contributors: Robert Hullot-Kentor (Editor)
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; University of Minnesota Press
Published: May 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780816636662
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Theory of music & musicology; Philosophy; History & Criticism - General; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Aesthetics; Philosophy / Aesthetics; 20th century; History and criticism
Description: "In 1947 Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Schoenberg reviled it." "Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition itself, rather than as a matter of the reproduction of musical performance. Consisting of two distinct essays, "Schoenberg and Progress" and "Stravinsky and Reaction," this work poses the musical extremes in which Adorno perceived the struggle for the cultural future of Europe, between human emancipation and barbarism, between the compositional techniques and achievements of Schoenberg and Stravinsky." "In this completely new translation - presented along with an extensive introduction by distinguished translator Robert Hullot-Kentor - Philosophy of New Music emerges as a key to the whole of Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre."--Jacket.