Adorno, Theodor W. (1903-1969) . "Zur gesellschaftlichen Lage der Musik "- SIGNED. The essay "On the Social Situation in Music," as published in "Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, hrsg. vom Institut für Sozialforschung," 1932, Doppelheft 1/2 (Leipzig, Hirschfeld, 1932), p. 103–124, 8vo. Signed and inscribed with an undated inscription to an unknown recipient "with a bad conscience after such a long silence and with the heartiest regards, your T. W. - A."
An uncommon signed copy of this important work by the composer and philosopher whose theories and writings helped shape the 20th Century Avant Garde and define the aesthetics of the 2nd Viennese School. This is Adorno's first comprehensive study on the Sociology of Music, published here in the first issue of Horkheimer's influential "Journal for Sociology," and considered to be a cornerstone in the discipline. In this essay "in very concentrated form, is to be found the essence of Adorno's theories on the dilemma of modern music, its alienation from society in view of the contradictions raised by its autonomy-character over the general social function of music as commodity, and its critical function as a form of cognition, paralleling social theory. In the material structures of such music, he maintains, are encoded the antinomies of society itself - this is what he identifies as the 'social content' (or social 'substance' (Gehalt)) of musical works." (Max Paddison, "Adorno's Aesthetics of Music," p. 97)
An uncommon signed copy of this important work by the composer and philosopher whose theories and writings helped shape the 20th Century Avant Garde and define the aesthetics of the 2nd Viennese School. This is Adorno's first comprehensive study on the Sociology of Music, published here in the first issue of Horkheimer's influential "Journal for Sociology," and considered to be a cornerstone in the discipline. In this essay "in very concentrated form, is to be found the essence of Adorno's theories on the dilemma of modern music, its alienation from society in view of the contradictions raised by its autonomy-character over the general social function of music as commodity, and its critical function as a form of cognition, paralleling social theory. In the material structures of such music, he maintains, are encoded the antinomies of society itself - this is what he identifies as the 'social content' (or social 'substance' (Gehalt)) of musical works." (Max Paddison, "Adorno's Aesthetics of Music," p. 97)
Adorno, Theodor W. (1903-1969) . "Zur gesellschaftlichen Lage der Musik "- SIGNED. The essay "On the Social Situation in Music," as published in "Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, hrsg. vom Institut für Sozialforschung," 1932, Doppelheft 1/2 (Leipzig, Hirschfeld, 1932), p. 103–124, 8vo. Signed and inscribed with an undated inscription to an unknown recipient "with a bad conscience after such a long silence and with the heartiest regards, your T. W. - A."
An uncommon signed copy of this important work by the composer and philosopher whose theories and writings helped shape the 20th Century Avant Garde and define the aesthetics of the 2nd Viennese School. This is Adorno's first comprehensive study on the Sociology of Music, published here in the first issue of Horkheimer's influential "Journal for Sociology," and considered to be a cornerstone in the discipline. In this essay "in very concentrated form, is to be found the essence of Adorno's theories on the dilemma of modern music, its alienation from society in view of the contradictions raised by its autonomy-character over the general social function of music as commodity, and its critical function as a form of cognition, paralleling social theory. In the material structures of such music, he maintains, are encoded the antinomies of society itself - this is what he identifies as the 'social content' (or social 'substance' (Gehalt)) of musical works." (Max Paddison, "Adorno's Aesthetics of Music," p. 97)
An uncommon signed copy of this important work by the composer and philosopher whose theories and writings helped shape the 20th Century Avant Garde and define the aesthetics of the 2nd Viennese School. This is Adorno's first comprehensive study on the Sociology of Music, published here in the first issue of Horkheimer's influential "Journal for Sociology," and considered to be a cornerstone in the discipline. In this essay "in very concentrated form, is to be found the essence of Adorno's theories on the dilemma of modern music, its alienation from society in view of the contradictions raised by its autonomy-character over the general social function of music as commodity, and its critical function as a form of cognition, paralleling social theory. In the material structures of such music, he maintains, are encoded the antinomies of society itself - this is what he identifies as the 'social content' (or social 'substance' (Gehalt)) of musical works." (Max Paddison, "Adorno's Aesthetics of Music," p. 97)