Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Adorno's Aesthetics of Music
  • Cited by 129
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2011
Print publication year:
1993
Online ISBN:
9780511549441
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549441
Subjects:
Philosophy: General Interest, Music, Philosophy, Music: General Interest
Information

Book description

This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly established itself as a classic text.

Reviews

‘Paddison guides responsible readers back and forth between his own work and Adorno’s in a stunning process of dialectical illumination. In addition, Paddison’s control of his material has given him the perspective to go beyond mere emulation of Adorno’s methods to a useful critique of his musical enterprise … It is a book that one can present without embarrassment to graduate students conversant with the most up-to-date intellectual currents; even in the shifting sands of the increasingly postmodernist university, Paddison’s book, like Adorno’s work, has not only the sharp intelligence but also the irreducible multivalence to hold its own as a focus of study … [this] is a book that both in its contents and in its example constitutes an utterly reliable as well as endlessly rich guide to what may be the most important and most difficult musical thought of the century now passing. Max Paddison has written a magnum opus.’

Rose Rosengard Subotnik Source: Journal of the Royal Musical Association

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

Contents

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.