Apparitions

Berthold Hoeckner is Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century GermanMusic and the Hermeneutics of the Moment.

Introduction by Berthold Hoeckner Chapter 1 Drifting: The Dialectics of Adorno's Philosophy of New Music Daniel Chua Chapter 2 Labor and Metaphysics in Hindemith's and Adorno's Prescriptions on Counterpoint Keith Chapin Chapter 3 Frankfurt School Blues: Rethinking Adorno's Critique of Jazz James Buhler Chapter 4 'Die Zerstörung der Symphonie': Adorno and the Theory of Radio Larson Powell Chapter 5 Music, Corporate Power, and the Age of the Unending War Martin Scherzinger Chapter 6 Dire cela, sans savoir quoi . The question of meaning in Adorno and in the Musical Avantgarde Gianmario Borio Chapter 7 'The Elliptical Geometry of Utopia': New Music since Adorno Julian Johnson Chapter 8 Wolfgang Rihm and the Adorno Legacy Alastair Williams Notes Index