READING GROUP: CISM Discussion Group Event
Led by Professor Pieter van den Toorn
Monday, March 7 / 2:00 PM / Free
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor

This reading group meeting is part of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) symposia series on Marxism/Post-Structuralism and Music. This session will investigate T. W. Adorno’s perspective on the music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky (elements of “autonomous” Western art music) and, in a different vein, Jazz and popular music at mid-20th century. Of interest here will be the embracing role of Marxism in Adorno’s thought and the ways in which his approach does and does not relate to current trends in musicology and theory.

Suggested readings include:

• "Perennial Fashion-Jazz" in T. W. Adorno, Prisms
  
• Chapter 2 in Rose Subotnik, Developing Variations
  
• "Stravinsky: A Dialectical Portrait", in T. W. Adorno, Quasi un Fantasia.
  
• For an excellent overall account of Adorno's approach, see Max Paddison, Adorno's Aesthetics of Music.
  
  Other readings on reserve include:
  
• Marx, Karl. Capital. Friedrich Engels, ed.
  
• Selections from Capital on Commodity Fetish and Bowie, Andrew. 2001.
  
• " Theodor Adorno." In Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory. Anthony Elliott and Bryan S. Turner, eds. London: Sage Publications. pp. 59-69.
  
  Refreshments will be provided.
  
  Sponsored by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music and the IHC.

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