Adorno’s music book applies the dialectic of enlightenment within music

Evidence

In his manuscript Philosophy of Modern Music', Adorno had produced a model of the dialectic of enlightenment developed within the field of music; when a second part, on Stravinsky and the Restoration’, was added to it in 1948, he described the finished book, Philosophy of Modern Music, in its preface, as an `excursus on the Dialectic of Enlightenment’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 368

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how the Dialectic of Enlightenment concept was transposed into a musical domain rather than remaining a philosophical thesis.
• XREF: Ties to Adorno’s reading of twelve-tone technique as domination of nature within music. — connects to: Adorno read twelve-tone technique as progressive rationalization and demythologizing of music; Atonal music embodied a premature reconciliation of mind and nature for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 328; Adorno’s music monographs supplied the conceptual machinery for his social theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 349 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno read twelve-tone technique as progressive rationalization and demythologizing of music; Atonal music embodied a premature reconciliation of mind and nature for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 328; Adorno’s music monographs supplied the conceptual machinery for his social theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 349 (+6 more)