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Subject(s)

• Mass media and music [Browse]
• Music—Philosophy and aesthetics [Browse]
• Adorno, Theodor W. 1903-1969—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Editor

• Borio, Gianmario [Browse]

Series

Musical cultures of the twentieth century [More in this series]

Summary note

"Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music, its technological reproduction and its modes of communication - in particular, pedagogy and dissemination through the media. The book's four parts each deal with different aspects of the mediation process. The contributing authors outline the problematic moments in Adorno's reasoning but also highlight its potential. In many chapters the pole of immediacy is explicitly brought into play, its different manifestations often proving to be fundamental for the understanding of mediation processes. The prime reference sources are Adorno's Current of Music, Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction and Composing for the Films. Critical readings of these texts are supplemented by reflections on performance studies, media theories, sociology of listening, post-structuralism and other contiguous research fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Popular culture and post-traditional arts: debates and controversies during Adorno's exile in the USA / Gianmario Borio
• The logic of judgement-less synthesis: Theodor W. Adorno on Vermittlung and the language of music / Dieter Mersch
• Beyond mediation / Esteban Buch
• Media, mediation and "Bildung" in Adorno's Current of music / Michela Garda
• "Every written note is the image of a beat": rethinking Adorno's critique of notation / Andreas Meyer
• Towards a practice of musical performance creativity / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
• Exploring the text-performance continuum in music: reflections on immediate mediation / Alessandro Cecchi
• Instrumentalizing music for the movies: comedy, portability, labor, critique / Lydia Goehr
• Composing for the films in the age of digital media / James Buhler
• Adorno and jazz: a dialogue with the philosopher from an audiotactile perspective / Vincenzo Caporaletti
• Adorno, the jitterbug and the becoming insect of music / Makis Solomos.

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ISBN

• 9780367762544 ((hardback))
• 0367762544
• 9780367762551 ((paperback))
• 0367762552

LCCN

2022004012

OCLC

1293985004

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