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Quasi Una Fantasia - Essays on Modern Music (Paperback, New)
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Quasi Una Fantasia - Essays on Modern Music (Paperback, New)
Series: Radical Thinkers
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Loot Price R552
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Quasi una Fantasia contains Adorno's own selection from his essays
and journalism over more than three decades. In its analytical
profundity it can be compared to his Philosophy of Modern Music,
but in the range of its topics and the clarity of its arguments it
stands alone among Adorno's writings on music. Especially
significant is Adorno's dialectical portrait of Stravinsky in which
he both reconsiders and refines the damning indictment he gave in
Philosophy on Modern Music. More unexpectedly, there are moving
accounts of earlier works, including Bizet's Carmen and Weber's Der
Freischutz, along with an entertainingly caustic Natural History of
the Theatre, which explores the hierarchies of the auditorium, from
upper circle to foyer. 'The positive element of kitsch', Adorno
remarks, 'lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the
glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.' Yet even
while Adorno demolishes 'commodity music' he is sustained by the
conviction that music is supremely human because it retains the
capacity to speak of inhumanity and to resist it. It is a
conviction which reverberates throughout these writings. For
Adorno, music and philosophy were inextricably linked: Quasi una
Fantasia will enlarge our understanding of both.
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