Philosophy of New Music by Adorno, Theodor W. & Robert Hullot-Kentor

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". xxxi, 208pp. Very mild shelf wear to corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers of jacket. Gray cloth over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1947 Theodor W. Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even Schoenberg reviled it. Despite the controversy, Philosophy of New Music became highly regarded and widely read among musicians, scholars, and social philosophers. Marking a major turning point in his musicological philosophy, Adorno located a critique of musical reproduction as internal to composition… Read More

Hardback. New. In 1947, Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Presented with an introduction by distinguished translator, Robert Hullot-Kentor, this book looks at Adorno's illustrious and influential oeuvre.

Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.