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 Adorno's
Aesthetics of Music by Max Paddison
This book
provides an introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music
of the This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music
of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the
only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly
established itself as a classic text.'Paddison's control of his
material has given him the perspective to go beyond mere emulation
of Adorno's methods to a useful critique of his musical enterprise
It is a book that one can present without embarrassment to graduate
students conversant with the most up-to-date intellectual currents
[this] is a book that both in its contents and in its example
constitutes an utterly reliable as well as endlessly rich guide
to what may be the most important and most difficult musical thought
of the century now passing. Max Paddison has written a magnum
opus.'Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Journal of the Royal Musical Association.
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