Apparitions : new perspectives on Adorno and twentieth century music / edited by Berthold Hoeckner.

Preface: on apparition / Berthold Hoeckner -- 1. Drifting: the dialectics of Adorno's Philosophy of New Music / Daniel K. L. Chua -- 2. Labor and metaphysics in Hindemith's and Adorno's statements on counterpoint / Keith Chapin -- 3. Dire cela, sans savoir quoi: the question of meaning in Adorno and in the musical avant-garde / Gianmario Borio -- 4. "The elliptical geometry of utopia": New music since Adorno / Julian Johnson -- 5. Wolfgang Rihm and the Adorno Legacy / Alastair Williams -- 6. Frankfurt School Blues: rethinking Adorno's critique of jazz / James Buhler -- 7. "Die Zerstörung der Symphonie": Adorno and the theory of radio / Larson Powell -- 8. Music, corporate power, and the age of unending war / Martin Scherzinger

"Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thikers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and how these theories, in turn, have affected the study of contemporary art music, popular music, and jazz. The essays review the impact of Philosophy of New Music after World War II, examine Adorno's struggle to adapt his aging philosophy to the new music of the 1950s and 1960s, and trace his influence on recent composers. Several essays in this volume also re-evaluate Adorno's controversial contribution to the study of popular music and jazz, as well as his theories of mass media and mass culture in the context of an increasing consolidation of coroporate and political power in the entertainment industry. This volume will be indispensable for both scholars and students of Adorno, who seek a historical context and a critical assessment of some of his most influential as well as most contested writing on music." (cubierta posterior)