The Mediations of Music

Critical Approaches after Adorno

Gianmario Borio

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780367762544
• eBook ISBN: 9781000619126
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Subtopic: Musik

Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music, its technological reproduction and its modes of communication – in particular, pedagogy and dissemination through the media. Each of the book's four parts deal with different aspects of the mediation process. The contributing authors outline the problematic moments in Adorno's reasoning but also highlight its potential. In many chapters the pole of immediacy is explicitly brought into play, its different manifestations often proving to be fundamental for the understanding of mediation processes. The prime reference sources are Adorno's Current of Music, Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction and Composing for the Films. Critical readings of these texts are supplemented by reflections on performance studies, media theories, sociology of listening, post-structuralism and other contiguous research fields.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1. Popular Culture and Post-Traditional Arts: Debates and Controversies During Adorno’s Exile in the USA
• PART I: The Dynamics of Musical Mediation
• PART II: Notation and Performance
• PART III: Music on Screen
• PART IV: Recorded Sound in Changing Environments
• Index