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Cargando... In Search of Wagner (1952 original; edición 2009)por Theodor Adorno (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It always strikes me as strange when people use Adorno's musical works as the basis for their interpretation of Adorno, and now I've read this it seems even stranger. There's very little here that you can't find more clearly expressed in shorter programmatic essays, or essays on literary figures.The meat here comes in the form of sentences wedged into paragraphs which are incomprehensible to me, and I assume to most of the rest of the world, since they deal with details of the plot or the musical structure of Wagner's operas. I got very little out of it, to be honest, either for Adorno or for Wagner. If you're looking for an 'easy' way in, you should try 'Critical Models,' or the first few essays in 'Notes to Literature' instead. Unless you're a music buff, in which case this might make more sense to you. ( ) My copy of this book is unique. Adorno was searching for the meaning of Wagner. I am searching for meaning in Adorno. Someone who came before me was doing one or the other, or perhaps both. Whoever it was left behind traces of their search: underlinings, sometimes lasting for several pages; marginal notes; graphics. There are even two pencilled epigraphs: [1] "the mixture of D. Michael Quinn and cyberpunk", and [2] "Come Again to the Healing Waters -- Liszt." Now, D. Michael Quinn could either be: (a) a Mormon historian fixated on polygamy and homosexuality, or (b) an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Bloomfield, Michigan. Liszt is, presumably, Wagner's piano-playing father-in-law. Now, mormonism has a somewhat conflicted view of Jews and Judaism, considering Native Americans to be both (1) the lost tribe of Israel, hence blessed by God as the Chosen People and (2) cursed by God with a red skin as a result of their antagonism to the Sons of Nephi. And, of course, we know about Wagner's anti-semitism, although some of his best friends and benefactors were Jews. How Bloomfield, Michigan comes into it, I don't know. The search continues... sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Analyzes Wagner's music and compositional techniques, discusses his character, and examines the ideological tendencies of his approach to art. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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