The Dialectics of Music
Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze
1st Edition
Published on 20. May 2021
200 pages
978-1-350-17497-9 (ISBN)
Description
Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the unresolved contradictions of contemporary music.
By following the outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the book reflects on how advanced music critically responds to the ongoing catastrophe of both the Middle Passage and Auschwitz. Following what the author calls the "categorical imperative" of music, Weiss investigates the significance of a wide range of musical phenomena including the territorialization of the lullaby, the improvisation and sorrow song of the blues and jazz, as well as the cosmological limits of the electroacoustic avant-garde. In the era of commodity production, racialized violence and dispossession, the author defends critical music as a singular index of political possibilities.
By following the outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the book reflects on how advanced music critically responds to the ongoing catastrophe of both the Middle Passage and Auschwitz. Following what the author calls the "categorical imperative" of music, Weiss investigates the significance of a wide range of musical phenomena including the territorialization of the lullaby, the improvisation and sorrow song of the blues and jazz, as well as the cosmological limits of the electroacoustic avant-garde. In the era of commodity production, racialized violence and dispossession, the author defends critical music as a singular index of political possibilities.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-350-17497-9 (9781350174979)
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12/2022
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Joseph Weiss is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University, USA.
Content
Prologue: On Presentation
Introduction: Natural History after the Brahmsian Mode
Excursus I: From the Lullaby to Electroacoustic Music
Excursus II: The Sorrow Song of Nature
Excursus III: Music after Auschwitz
Index
Introduction: Natural History after the Brahmsian Mode
Excursus I: From the Lullaby to Electroacoustic Music
Excursus II: The Sorrow Song of Nature
Excursus III: Music after Auschwitz
Index
