Sound Judgment: Selected Essays

Contents

• Contents: Introduction. Part I Aurality: On reading Adorno hearing Schubert
• Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity: Fitzcarraldo
• 'Everybody's lonesome for somebody': age, the body, and experience in the music of Hank Williams (co-authored with George Lipsitz)
• Gender sonics: the voice of Patsy Cline. Part II Visuality: The prodigal son: Teniers and Ghezzi
• Concert in a House: musical iconography and musical thought
• Imagery, musical confrontation and cultural difference in early 18th-century London
• Male agony: awakening conscience
• The musician of the imagination. Part III Practice: Music teachers of upper-class amateur musicians in 18th-century England
• Music and the body: dance, power, submission. Part IV Utopia: Nature and exile: Adorno, Mahler and the appropriation of kitsch
• Four hands, once again [by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Jonathan Wipplinger]
• Four hands, three hearts: a commentary: Music 'pushed to the edge of existence' (Adorno, listening, and the question of hope)
• Index.