Immediacy and the mediations of music : critical approaches after Theodor W. Adorno / edited by Gianmario Borio.

Introduction / Gianmario Borio -- PART I. The Dynamics of Musical Mediation. 'Music is the Logic of Judgmentless Synthesis' : Adorno on Music, Language, and Mediation / Dietrich Mersch ; Beyond Mediation / Esteban Buch ; Radio Voices : Progressive Broadcasting between Aesthetics and Mass Pedagogy / Michela Garda -- PART II. Notation and Performance. 'Jedes Notenzeichen ... ein Schlag' : Rethinking Adorno's critique of notation / Andreas Meyer ; Towards a Practice of Musical Performance Creativity / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson ; A 'Radical Mediation' Approach to the Text/Performance Relation in Music / Alessandro Cecchi -- PART III. Music on Screen. Instrumentalising Music for the Film : Pianos, Harps, and Fiddles in Backbreaking Moves of Social Labour / Lydia Goehr ; Composing for the Films in the Age of Digital Media / James Buhler -- PART IV. Recorded Sound in Changing Environments. Adorno and Jazz : A Critical Revision from an Audiotactile Perspective / Vincenzo Caporaletti ; 'To become transformed into an insect, man needs that energy which might possibly achieve his transformation into a man' : Adorno, the domination of nature and the becoming-insect of music / Makis Solomos.

"Adorno believed that a circular relationship was established between immediacy and mediation. Should we now say that this model with its clear Hegelian influence is outdated? Or does it need some theoretical integration? This volume addresses these questions by covering the performance of music, its technological reproduction and its modes of communication - in particular, pedagogy and dissemination through the media. The book's four parts each deal with different aspects of the mediation process. The contributing authors outline the problematic moments in Adorno's reasoning but also highlight its potential. In many chapters the pole of immediacy is explicitly brought into play, its different manifestations often proving to be fundamental for the understanding of mediation processes. The prime reference sources are Adorno's Current of Music, Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction and Composing for the Films. Critical readings of these texts are supplemented by reflections on performance studies, media theories, sociology of listening, post-structuralism and other contiguous research fields"-- Provided by publisher.