{"id":2616,"date":"2024-03-18T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:17:55","slug":"new-translation-of-adorno-orpheus-in-the-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"New translation of Adorno: Orpheus in the Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A new translation<\/a> of Adorno’s work by Douglas Robertson will soon be published at The University of Chicago Press. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book “Delves into Theodor W. Adorno\u2019s lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century\u2019s most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Adorno began his career as a composer and successful music critic.

Comprehensive and illuminating, Orpheus in the Underworld<\/em> centers on Adorno\u2019s concrete and immediate engagement with musical compositions and their interpretation in the concert hall and elsewhere. Here, Adorno registers his initial encounters with the compositions of the Second Viennese School, when he had yet to integrate them into a broad aesthetics of music. Complementarily essays on Bela Bart\u00f3k, Jean Sibelius, and Kurt Weill afford insight into his understanding of composers who did not fit neatly into the dialectical schema propounded in the Philosophy of New Music. Additionally, essays on recording and broadcasting show Adorno engaging with these media in a spirit that is no less productive than polemical and focused as sharply on their potentialities as on their shortcomings.

Orpheus in the Underworld<\/em> offers a captivating exploration of Adorno\u2019s musical compositions, shedding new light on his understanding of influential composers and his critical perspectives on recording and broadcasting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new translation of Adorno’s work by Douglas Robertson will soon be published at The University of Chicago Press. Here’s …<\/p>\n

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