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Quasi Una Fantasia
Essays on Modern Music
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 06
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This book is suited for readers interested in music, philosophy, and cultural theory, especially those looking to explore sophisticated critiques of modern music and its social contexts.
Leader of the Frankfurt School on the music of modernism.
Adorno's own selection of his essays and journalism from more than three decades of music writing
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This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno both reconsiders and refines his damning indictment of the composer in Philosophy on Modern Music.
Throughout, Adorno is sustained by the conviction that music is supremely human because it is capable of communicating inhumanity while resisting it. His belief in the benevolent and transformative power of music reverberates throughout these writings.
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 06
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Times Higher Education Supplement praised the book as "extraordinary," highlighting it as one of Adorno's most impressive and elegant works, ideal for readers wanting to engage with a challenging social theorist's enthusiastic voice. Susan Sontag remarked that a volume of Adorno's work is equivalent to "a whole shelf of books on literature."
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781844677924
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 January 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 384g
Pages: 346
About the Author
Theodor Adorno was Director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969.
Also by Theodor Adorno
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