Friendly remainders : essays in musical criticism after Adorno / Murray Dineen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dineen, Phillip Murray.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. Negative Dialektik--Criticism and interpretation.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Musical criticism.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--History and criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : music ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2011]

Summary:

"Dineen draws on Adorno's concept of the negative dialectic, examining its importance in Adorno's thought and its critical application to musical forms. Moving beyond a positivist view where musical object and appreciation operate as a synthesis, the negative dialectic method focuses on divergence and dissonance in musical forms and in society. Contradictions and divergent details and concepts become 'remainders,' friendly because of the fresh perspective they offer on musical forms. Dineen examines these contradictory remainders in subjects such as the fascist element in Wagner's character, the torpor of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method, the self-contradiction implicit in Beethoven's Late Style, Frank Zappa's attempt to define himself as a 'serious' composer, the reactionary stasis in Marilyn Manson's DVD 'Guns, God and government world tour,' and the death motive in John Coltrane"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Ashton's Remainder

Just for nice

The work of music

Technique

Wagner, terrorist

Spätstil Zappas

Stars down from heaven

Moses und Adorno

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-238) and index.

ISBN:

0773539190

9780773538849

0773538844

9780773539198

OCLC:

720810690

Publisher Number:

99946423088