B. Ricardo Brown. Ives, Bernstein and Adorno on the Crisis/Crises of the 20th Century, part II: Music and the Culture Industry.

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This is part two of a three part lecture-cast prepared for the course SS.235, Sociology of Music/Sound/Noise, Department of Social Science & Culture Studies, Pratt Institute. Spring 2020. Additional course materials are available on the course LMS site. The recording contains several music selections. The lecture portion is c.30mins and the musical selections c.50mins.

Part One of this lecture can be found via any of these links:
https://talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_ip54zdit

https://archive.org/details/brbiii-20th-century-crisis-bernstein-ives-adorno-part-one
https://vimeo.com/403493769

https://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2020/04/ives-bernstein-and-adorno-on.html

Part Three of this lecture can be found via any of these links:
https://talks.pratt.edu/media/t/1_c2u8mglp
https://archive.org/details/brbiii-20th-century-crisis-bernstein-ives-adorno-part-three-anti-critiqu...

We are going to take a piece of music (Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question) and look at how Bernstein and Adorno used it as a means to delve deeply into these questions regarding the meaning of crisis and the expression of social transformation. As a preliminary to that discussion, in part one we are going to review a few examples of the varieties of expression and experiences of Bernstein’s “crisis of ambiguity”. Can music be expressive of a time and place, and if so, what is the meaning of these expressions? Is Pierre Boulez correct when he says that: “An idea does not exist until we realize how it may be used. In musical terms, there is no such thing as an idea in itself, it is a reaction to our whole cultural environment." – Pierre Boulez. “Idea, Realization, Craft.” Music Lessons: Lectures at the College de France.

This recording was prepared for the course SS.235, Sociology of Music/Sound/Noise, Department of Social Science & Culture Studies, Pratt Institute. Spring 2020. Additional materials are available on the course LMS site.

Bibliography for Parts One and Two:

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Adorno, Theodor. “The Problem of a New Type of Human Being” from The Current of Music.

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Adorno on Music and Popular Protest:

https://archive.org/details/RicBrownTheordorAdornoonPopularMusicandProtest

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Boulez, Pierre. 2019. “Idea, Realization, Craft.” Music Lessons: Lectures at the College de France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Boulez, Pierre. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps). Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. Milan, 2006.

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B. Ricardo Brown. Ives, Bernstein and Adorno on the Crisis/Crises of the 20th Century, part II: Music and the Culture Industry.

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