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to critical theorists and musicologists wishing to build a more engaged practice without the pitfalls of a by now outdated ‘postmodern’ turn.
ISBN: | 9781786612694 |
Publication date: | 1st July 2019 |
Author: | Stan Erraught |
Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 156 pages |
Series: | Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders |
Genres: |
Philosophy: aesthetics |