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almahu_9947413793102882
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ISBN:
9781571138835 (ebook)
Content:
After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or "fraying of boundaries," between the arts. TheDifferentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-1980): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapteron Adorno's theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the Hörspiel or radio play to electronic music. In the second part, on film music, a chapter on Adorno and Eisler's Composing for the Film sets the parameters for chapters on the film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1957) and on the music films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The third part examines the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and its relationship to radio, abstract painting, recording technology, and theatrical happenings. The book's central notion of the "differentiation of culture" suggests that late modernism, unlike high modernism, accepted thecontingency of modern mass-media driven society and sought to find new forms for it. Larson Powell is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature (Camden House, 2008).
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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The differentiation of culture -- The destruction of the symphony: Adorno and American radio -- The war with other media: Bachmann's Der Gute Gott Von Manhattan -- Radio Jelinek: from discourse to Sinthome -- Jokes and their relation to film music -- Allegories of management: Norbert Schultze's soundtrack to Das Mädchen Rosemarie -- Straub and Huillet's music films -- The modulated subject: Stockhausen's Mikrophonie II -- Music beyond theater: Stockhausen's Aus Den Sieben Tagen -- In lieu of a conclusion: Mediating the divide.
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