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by: Theodor W Adorno  EAN: 9780860910374 ISBN: 0860910377 Label: Nlb Manufacturer: Nlb Number Of Pages: 159 Publication Date: 1981 Publisher: Nlb Studio: Nlb Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?" Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music—because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political terms, because of their eventual assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. This concise synoptic account by the most brilliant exponent of Frankfurt School Marxism subtly interweaves these artistic and ideological qualities. It provides deft musicological analyses of Wagner's scores and of his compositional techniques, orchestration and staging methods, quoting copiously from the music dramas themselves. At the same time it offers incisive reflections on Wagner's social character and the ideological impulses of his artistic activity. Average Rating:
 Rating: - new translation of work by influential 20th-century thinkerThe European emigre writer Adorno is a major mid 20th century author identified with the Frankfurt School of social criticism. Although this School is usually described as having a Marxist perspective, the social criticism of Adorno is not doctrinaire or propagandistic. Adorno's writings--as this current publication testifies again--have stood the test of time for their acuteness, rigor, and application of first-rate intellectual powers to subjects of the contemporary society. These qualities ... Read More Rating: - great probing analysis into the last RomanticAdorno wrote this as a response to the growing inflated enthusiasm of Wagner's Operas during the War Years,with the darkest pages of Europa.It was inevitable the Third Reich was to seize upon these works primarily the more facile operas as 'Die Meistersinger','Lohengrin', and leave the more controversial RING to languish for history to ponder. Adorno always had a nerve-ending unbalanced by Wagner's penchant for the arbitrary largesse, the amplitude, the inflated-ness of his creative procedures,the ... Read More 
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