On Music, Value and Utopia - Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come?

Adorno's writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that 'he didn't listen to the right jazz' or 'he was a snob'. In this book, using Adorno's aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach to the study of idiomatic, non- standard music is constructed. The links between Adorno's work and its Kantian roots are explored, and a more general and inclusive aesthetic constructed, using the utopian and implicitly political elements in each.

This book will be of interest to critical theorists and musicologists wishing to build a more engaged practice without the pitfalls of a by now outdated 'postmodern' turn.

List of contents

Introduction / 1 - A Reading of Kant's "Critique of Aesthetic Judgement" / 2. Aesthetics into Politics
3. Aesthetic Theory / 4. Kant against Adorno, Adorno against Adorno / 5. (Coda) - Music, Finally.

About the author

By Stan Erraught

Summary

In this book, using Adorno's aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach to the study of idiomatic, non- standard music is constructed. The links between Adorno's work and its Kantian roots are explored, and a more general and inclusive aesthetic constructed.

Product details

• Authors: Stan Erraught
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781786606044
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-604-4
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders; Values and Identities: Crossin; Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Philosophy: aesthetics