Description Adorno's writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that 'he didn't listen to the right jazz' or 'he was a snob'.
In this book, using Adorno's aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach to the study of idiomatic, non- standard music is constructed.
The links between Adorno's work and its Kantian roots are explored, and a more general and inclusive aesthetic constru.
Rowman & Littlefield International On music, value and utopia: nostalgia for an age yet to come?, paperback/stan erraught
