Apparitions: Essays on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Drifting: The Dialectics of Adorno's "Philosophy of New Music"
• 2. Labour and Metaphysics in Hendemith's and Adorno's "Prescriptions on Counterpoint"
• 3. Frankfurt School of Blues: Rethinking Adorno's Critique of Jazz
• 4. "Die Zerstorung der Symphonie": Adorno and the Theory of Radio
• 5. Music, Corporate Power and the Age of the Unending War
• 6. "Dire cela, sans savoir quoi": The Question of Meaning in Adorno and in the Musical Avant-Garde
• 7. The Elliptical Geometry of Utopia: New Music since Adorno
• 8. Wolfgang Rihm and the Adorno Legacy Notes Index