220 Pages
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Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Robert W. Witkin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter and the author of Art and Social Structure (1995).
