Quasi Una Fantasia

Essays on Modern Music

Theodor Adorno

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English

Verso Books
29 December 2011

Theory of music & musicology; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Cultural studies

Series: Radical Thinkers

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's ""dialectical portrait"" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno both reconsiders and refines his damning indictment of the composer in Philosophy on Modern Music. Throughout, Adorno is sustained by the conviction that music is supremely human because it is capable of communicating inhumanity while resisting it. His belief in the benevolent and transformative power of music reverberates throughout these writings.

By: Theodor Adorno
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 384g
ISBN: 9781844677924
ISBN 10: 1844677923
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 29 December 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Theodor Adorno was Director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1959 until his death in 1969.

Reviews for Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music

This is an extraordinary book ... one of Adorno's most impressive, fecund and elegant works ... It will appeal to anyone who wishes to encounter one of the century's most challenging and provocative social theorists at his most openly enthusiastic. --Times Higher Education Supplement <p/> A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature. --Susan Sontag