frankfurt school
The influence of the Frankfurt School thinkers on musicology and popular music studies has been pervasive. Ethnomusicologists, however, have been more cautious in engaging the key tenets of Critical Theory, often citing its alleged elitism and hostility to popular culture. In this course students will get to know some well known but also lesser known texts that might prompt a different reading of this influential tradition.
Max
Horkheimer:
The
End
of
Reason
Max
Horkheimer/Theodor
W.Adorno:
The
Dialectic
of Enlightenment
Theodor
W.Adorno:
On
the
Fetish
Character
in
Music
Herbert
Marcuse:
Eros
and
Civilization
Theodor
W.Adorno:
Aesthetic
Theory
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