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Informationen zum Autor Berthold Hoeckner is Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century GermanMusic and the Hermeneutics of the Moment. Klappentext First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Revolves around the two movements in Adorno's creative life: the immediate impact of the publications of The Philosophy of Music in 1949; and his struggle with contemporary music during the 1950s and 60s. This book is aimed at scholars and students of Adorno, who seek a historical context for understanding his writings in the field of musicology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Berthold HoecknerChapter 1 Drifting: The Dialectics of Adorno's Philosophy of New Music Daniel Chua Chapter 2 Labor and Metaphysics in Hindemith's and Adorno's Prescriptions on CounterpointKeith ChapinChapter 3 Frankfurt School Blues: Rethinking Adorno's Critique of Jazz James BuhlerChapter 4 'Die Zerstörung der Symphonie': Adorno and the Theory of RadioLarson PowellChapter 5 Music, Corporate Power, and the Age of the Unending WarMartin ScherzingerChapter 6 Dire cela, sans savoir quoi. The question of meaning in Adorno and in the Musical Avantgarde Gianmario BorioChapter 7 'The Elliptical Geometry of Utopia': New Music since AdornoJulian JohnsonChapter 8 Wolfgang Rihm and the Adorno LegacyAlastair WilliamsNotesIndex