Adorno on Music
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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Adorno on Music
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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Adorno on Music

Adorno on Music

by Robert W. Witkin
Adorno on Music

Adorno on Music

by Robert W. Witkin

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136215445
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/17/2013
Series: International Library of Sociology
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 317 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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;

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