Week 1
Music and Philosophy
Reading
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Barenboim, D. (2009) Everything is Connected, London: Pheonix pp 5- 23
Nietzsche, F. (2007) Twilight of the Idols Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited pp53-54
Wider reading
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘Music, Language and Composition’ in Essays on Music, University of California Press, California pp 113 -116
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘On the Contemporary Relationship of Philosophy and Music’ in Essays on Music, University of California Press, California pp 135-145
Cox, C. & Warner, D. (2004) Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, London: Continuum
Attali, J. (1995) Noise: the political economy of music, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Hermand, J. & Richter, G. (eds) (2006) ‘German Music and Philosophy’ in Hermand, J. & Richter, G. Sound Figures of Modernity, The University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin
Leppert, R. &McClary, S. (eds) Music and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lippman, E. (1992) A History of Western Musical Aesthetics, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press
Steinberg, M.P. (2004) Listening to Reason, Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Week 2 -4
‘The Whole is the True’: Enlightenment, Kant and Mozart
Reading
Cassirer, E. (1951) The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Princeton: Princeton University Press
Kant, I. (1991) Kant, Political Writings, (Ed.) Hans Reiss Cambridge, Cambridge University Press p54
Rousseau, J.J. (1973) The Social Contract and Discourses, London: J.M. Dent & Sons
Subotnik, R. R. (1996) De Construct Ive Variations, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press ch 1
Steinberg, M.P. (2004) Listening to Reason, Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, New Jersey: Princeton University Press chapter 1
Wider reading
Adorno, T. (2002) Essays on Music, University of California Press, California
Brown, M. (2010) The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul, Seattle: University of Washington Press pp 4-7, 251-298
Leppert, R. &McClary, S. (eds) Music and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Presspp 68 -75
Steinberg, M.P. (2004) Listening to Reason, Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, New Jersey: Princeton University Introduction
‘The whole is the false’ Adorno, Hegel and Beethoven
Reading
Adorno, T.W. (1973) Negative Dialectics, London, RKP
Adorno, T.W. (1974) Minima Moralia, London: Verso
Adorno, T. (2002) Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music, Cambridge: Polity Press
Goehr, L ‘Doppelbewegung: The Musical Movement of Philosophy and the Philosophical Movement of Music’ in Hermand, J. & Richter, G (2006) Sound Figures of Modernity, The University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin pp 32-50
Hegel, G.W.F (1975) Hegel’s Logic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp15, 116-119
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford, Oxford University Press pp 27-8
Wider reading
Adorno. T.W and Horkheimer, M. (1979) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London, Verso
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘Alienated masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis’ in Essays on Music, California: University of California Press Ltd
Ballantine, C. (1984) music and its social meanings, New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc
Bernstein, J.M. (2004) ‘Negative Dialectic as Fate: Adorno and Hegel’ in The Cambridge Companion to Adorno, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Bowie, A. ‘Adorno, Heidegger, and the Meaning of Music’ in Huhn, T. (2004) The Cambridge Companion to Adorno, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Butler, C. and Seiler, C. (1984) Hegel: The Letters, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 275-282
Jarvis, S. (2002) Adorno, A Critical Introduction, Cambridge, Polity Press
Hamburger, M. (ed)(1984) Beethoven, Letters, Journals and Conversations, New York: Thames and Hudson Inc p84-91, 120-121
Lockwood, L. (2003) Beethoven, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Matthews, D. (1967) Beethoven Piano Sonatas, London: British Broadcasting Corporation
Mellers, W. (1983) Beethoven and the Voice of God, London: Travis and Emery
Sachs, H. (2010) The Ninth, London: Random House
Sullivan, J.W.N. (1964) Beethoven: his spiritual development, London: Unwin p36-47, 62-67,121-127
Rose, G. (1978) The Melancholy Science, London, Macmillan, chapter 3 p48
Rose, G. (1993) Judaism and Modernity, Oxford: Blackwell, pp 60-63.
Tubbs, N. (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing
Williams, A. (1997) Music and the Claims of Modernity, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company chapter 2
Yovel, Y. (2005) Hegel’s Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp. 35-42.
Week 5
Captivity, Exile and Slavery
Reading
Armstrong, T. (2012) The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature, New York: Cambridge University Press
Du Bois, W.E.B. (1994) The Souls of Black Folk, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. P155-165
Johnson, J.W. O Black and Unknown Bards
‘Psalm 137’ The Holy Bible, Glasgow: Harper Collins
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd pp165-167
Wider reading
Epstein, D.J. (1977) Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, Illinois: Illinois Press
Johnson, J.W. & Johnson, J.R. (1969) The Book of American Negro Spirituals, Da Capo Press
King, S.A. (2002) Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control, Mississippi: University of Mississippi
Moten, F. (2003) In the break: the aesthetics of the black tradition, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Porter, E. (2002) What is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics and Activists, California: University of California Press
Walvin, J. (2008) The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery, London: Vintage
White, B. W. (2012) Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters, Indiana: Indiana University Press
Week 6
Wagner and the Jews
Reading
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘What National Socialism has done to the Arts’ in Essays on Music, California: University of California Press Ltd
Adorno, T. (2002)’ Wagner’s relevance for today’ in Essays on Music, California: University of California Press Ltd
Magee, B. (2000) Wagner and Philosophy, London: Penguin Books
Steinberg. M.P. (2004) Listening to Reason, Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
Wider reading
Donington, R. (1963) Wagner’s ‘Ring’ and its Symbols: The Music and the Myth, London: Faber and Faber Limited
Nietzsche, F. (2000) The Birth of Tragedy, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Nietzsche, F. (2008) The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms, Gloucester: Dodo Press
Rose, P.L. (2005) Wagner, Race and Revolution, Connecticut: Yale University Press
Stewart, S. (2010) Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion, London: Thames & Hudson
Wagner, R. ‘Religion and Art’,
Wagner, R. ‘Know Thyself’,
Wagner, R. ‘What is German’
Wagner, R. ‘Judaism in Music,’
Weiner, M.A. (1995) Richard Wagner and the anti-semitic imagination, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press
Week 7
Shostakovich and the ‘captive mind’
Reading
Kuhn, J. (2010) Shostakovich in Dialogue, Surrey: Ashgate
MacDonald, I. (2006) The New Shostakovich, London: Pimlico p1-17
Milosz, C. (1980) The Captive Mind, London: The Penquin Group pp 54-81
Simon, John. ‘Shostakovich and the Politics of Survival’ New Leader 87, no. 6 (November 2004): 50-52.
Wider Reading
Edmunds, N. (2004) Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle, London: Routledge
Fairclough, P. & Fanning, D. (2008) The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Fairclough, P. (2012) ‘Don’t Sing It on a Feast Day’: The Reception and Performance of Western Sacred Music in Soviet Russia, 1917-1953′, Journal Of The American Musicological Society, 65, 1, pp. 67-111,
Fanning, D. (1995) Shostakovich Studies Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Fay, L. (2000) Shostakovich: A Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Lesser, W. (2011) Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets, Yale University Press
Nelson, A. (2004) Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Shostakovich, D. (2005) Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov, London: Faber & Faber
Street, J. (2012) Music and Politics, Cambridge: Polity Press
Wilson, E. (2006) Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, London: Faber & Faber
Week 8 (Tony Biondi)
Punk and Philosophy: Freedom and Chaos
Reading:
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, trans. Dennis Redmond (2005)
Adam Arola, ‘The Tyranny of Authenticity: Rebellion and the Question of “Right Life”’, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 21.4 (2007), pp. 291-306
Stuart Hanscomb, ‘Do it Yourself: Existentialism as Punk Philosophy’, Cafe Philosophy (2010), pp. 1-4
Reiichi Miura, ‘What Kind of Revolution Do You Want? Punk, the Contemporary Left, and Singularity’, Mediations, 25.1 (2010), pp. 61-80
Ryan Moore, ‘Postmodernism and Punk Subculture: Cultures of Authenticity and Deconstruction’, The Communication Review, 7 (2004), pp. 305–327,
David Pottie, ‘The Politics of Meaning in Punk Rock’, Problématique, 3 (1993), pp. 1-21
Jon Savage, England’s Dreaming (London: Faber & Faber, 2005).
Music:
Buzzcocks, ‘Boredom’ (1977)
The Clash, ‘White Riot’ (1977) ‘London Calling’ (1979)
The Damned, ‘New Rose’ (1976)
The Sex Pistols, ‘Anarchy in the UK’ (1976) ‘God Save the Queen’ (1977
Week 9
Hegel and music
Reading
Barenboim, D. (2009) Everything is Connected, London: Pheonix pp 5- 23
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II, Oxford, Oxford University Press pp888-892, p913-916
Hegel, G.W.F, (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Schopenhauer, A. (1995)The world as will and idea, London: Orion Publishing Group
Wider reading
Inwood, M. (1992) A Hegel Dictionary, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Hegel, G.W.F. (1993) Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, London: Penguin Books see Introduction by Michael Inwood
Kaminsky, J. (1962) Hegel on Art: Interpretation of Hegel’s Aesthetics, State University of New York Press
Nussbaum, M.C. (2001) Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press chapter 5
Rilke ‘To Music’
Week 10
The Culture Industry
Reading
Lukacs, G. (1971) History and Class Consciousness, London: Merlin Press
Marx, K. (2007) Capital: A critique of political economy: New York: Cosimo Classics
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘On the Social Situation of Music’ in Essays on Music, California: University of California Press pp 391-436
Adorno, T. (2001) The Culture Industry, London: Routledge
Wider Reading
Adorno, T. (2001) The Culture Industry, London: Routledge – introduction
Adorno, T. (2002) ‘On Popular Music’ in Essays on Music, California: University of California Press Ltd
Adorno, T. (2001) ‘Resignation’ in The Culture Industry, London: Routledge
Cook, D. (1996) The Culture Industry Revisited: Theodor W. Adorno on Mass Culture, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Paddison, M. ‘Authenticity and Failure in Adorno’s Aesthetics of Music’ in Huhn, T. (2004) The Cambridge Companion to Adorno, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Leppert, R. &McClary, S. (eds) Music and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Week 11
Spirit
Reading
Hegel, G.W.F, (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 110-111
Durkheim, E. (1984) The Division of Labour in Society, London: Macmillan
Ziezek
Marx, K. (1975) Early Writings, London: Penguin
Zizek, S. (2012) Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of dialectical materialism, London: Verso
Wider reading
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II, Oxford, Oxford University Press pp 953-954
Frith, S. ‘Towards an aesthetic of popular music’ in Leppert, R. &McClary, S. (1987) Music and Society: The politics of composition, performance and reception, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Week 12
The Singing revolution