Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions
about" Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities …

For musicologists in the postmodern academy, the notion of context wields great force, both
as a hermeneutic tool and as a meeting ground for a set of political beliefs that enable …

There is a strong tradition of literary analyses of the musical artwork. Simply put, all
musicology-any writing about music-is an attempt at making analogies between what …

Beethoven acknowledged the radical nature of his “Quartetto serioso”(1810) when he noted
that it had been written for “a small circle of connoisseurs” and was “never to be performed in …

The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno's
philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy. Yet Adorno's own …

This article discusses the cultural meanings of recent revivals in Yiddish music in the USA
and central Europe. It does this with reference to Adorno's critique of lyrical celebration of the …

Abstract? Resume Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction is one of Adorno's major
books on music. While centered on practical problems of performance and reproduc tion …

During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner
sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on …

Words like" inspiring,"" expansive," and" moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's
(), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense …

Adorno's philosophical writings on music are notably focused on the new, invested in
positioning the challenging avant‐garde works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern as the …