... claim that the music in Die zweite Heimat functions merely as a “quid pro quo” for Reitz's film aesthetic, I intend to illustrate the highly independent role of music, which does not simply coincide with the medium of film but occupies a distinct position within the decade's sociopolitical landscape...

....” In Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music , translated by Livingstone Rodney , 145 – 75 . New York : Verso . ———. 2002 . Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music , translated by Jephcott Edmund . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Middleton Richard . 1990 . Studying...

...Lydia Goehr This essay investigates global discourse in the shadow of the 1960s. It draws on the views of Nelson Goodman, Marshall McLuhan, and Theodor W. Adorno to explore three concepts central to music in the age of global transmission: compliance, current, and virtuality. It looks at “Three...

...Alison Lewis; Andrew W. Hurley Using Karen Duve's 2002 “postpop” novel as its basis, this article examines the gendering of consumption of popular music in the Federal Republic of Germany between the 1960s and the 1990s. The novel suggests that the amassing of popular music cultural capital...

...Jonathan Gentry After the success of Richard Strauss's Salome , the German music world devolved into bitter arguments about the degeneration of both music and society. Simultaneously, Germany's constitutional crisis over imperial wars generated new nationalist coalitions and racist politics...

... a characteristically dialectical response to nominalism, applauding its subversion of categorical reifications, but alarmed by its indiscriminate leveling of the distinction between concept and object, which could also efface the distinction between works of art and everyday objects. In musical terms, he appreciated...

.... 2016 Theodor W. Adorno imagination Gustav Mahler music utopia References Adorno Theodor W. 1970–86 . Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann Rolf . 20 vols . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . ———. 1995 . Nachgelassene Schriften , edited by Tiedemann Rolf...

...Max Paddison This article proposes that it is the notion of the “image” that provides the key to how Adorno understands interpretation in both philosophy and art. It seeks to show that it is especially music, and musical interpretation as performance, that provides the model for Adorno's conception...

... borrows and departs from both László Moholy-Nagy’s urban vision and Bertolt Brecht’s conception of urban capitalist modernity, the article shows that Kluge’s film reorients time-lapse cinematography and opens up a new form of perception. By incorporating transnational techno music, the film suggests...

...Lydia Goehr Abstract This essay presents Theodor W. Adorno’s case pro and contra the regulation of the work-concept in a tradition that long sustained a great 1800 divide. The case is made through the provocation offered in Lydia Goehr’s Imaginary Museum of Musical Works that “Bach did not intend...

...Mark Berry This essay considers the attitudes of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Theodor W. Adorno toward the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and its contemporary performance. The contexts for this comparison include the relationship between Romanticism and modernism, the experience and aftermath...

...Peter E. Gordon In his earlier writings and especially in his 1952 work Versuch über Wagner , Theodor W. Adorno developed a strongly critical perspective on Wagner's music, which he associated with the commodification of culture and the emergence of fascism. But in the 1956 program note to Parsifal...

...Adam J. Sacks The revival of the music of Gustav Mahler begun in the 1960s and largely led by Leonard Bernstein runs counter to the historically grounded, critical modernist reception as advocated by Theodor W. Adorno. Rather than prefiguring European modernism, Mahler's music was considered...

...Martin Scherzinger In “Radio Physiognomics” Theodor W. Adorno outlines the social features of music's radio broadcast, a still relatively new technology for music transmission and listening in the 1930s. The present article deploys Adorno's “physiognomic” analytics to diagnose the kinds...

...Brian Kane The publication of Current of Music affords a reassessment of Theodor W. Adorno's years at the Princeton Radio Research Project. Although his encounter with the culture industry was made vivid and palpable during these years, this article reads Current of Music as a prolongation of his...

... meaning of the music. The arguments are based on a peculiar configuration of space and time in the symphonies in which the temporal dimensions are so compressed that they form a spatial moment—an Augenblick that engulfs the listener in its metaphysical enclosures. Why should anyone believe such a peculiar...

...Sherry Lee Abstract This article considers the concept of cultural landscape ( Kulturlandschaft ) from Theodor W. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory , exploring how the philosophy of natural beauty in relation to historical built environments resonates with ideas of musical landscape and experiences...

...Juliane Schicker This article deals with questions of the sociopolitical involvement of classical music performance spaces. During the last twenty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig provided opportunities for its users to emancipate themselves from Socialist...

... Schoenberg's approach to music itself. But it was more than a purely aesthetic issue. Each of these intellectuals claims that the Bilderverbot was central to the contemporary political struggles. In Adorno's mind, not only had the Nazis violated the ban against graven images, but Hollywood's “culture industry...

...Joy H. Calico This article argues that misreadings of Theodor W. Adorno undermine some musicological research on late musical style, particularly with regard to the works of Arnold Schoenberg. It considers alternatives in the forms of exile (Edward Said), old-age style (Stuart Taberner...