Ebook: Apparitions: Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

Cover; Apparitions: New Perspectives on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music; Copyright; Contents; Preface: On Apparition; Authors; 1. Drifting: the Dialectics of Adorno's Philosophy of New Music; 2. Labor and Metaphysics in Hindemith's and Adorno's Statements on Counterpoint; 3. Dire Cela, Sans Savoir Quoi: The Question of Meaning in Adorno and in the Musical Avant-Garde; 4. "The Elliptical Geometry of Utopia": New Music Since Adorno; 5. Wolfgang Rihm and the Adorno Legacy; 6. Frankfurt School Blues: Rethinking Adorno's Critique of Jazz.;Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and how these theories, in turn, have affected the study of contemporary art music, popular music, and jazz.