Musical Revolutions in German Culture

Mirko M. Hall is Associate Professor of German Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Philosophy in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at Converse College, USA.

• Introduction: Musicking as a Cultural Practice 1. Friedrich Schlegel and Romanticized Music 2. Walter Benjamin and the Dialectical Sonority 3. Theodor W. Adorno and Radical Music 4. Blixa Bargeld and Noise Coda: Toward a Musical Future Perfect

“Hall’s book is engaging, stimulating and generative. … Hall provides readers with enough critical-musicking instruments to equip themselves as destructive musicians—or better, `destructive musickers’—in their own right. … Musical Revolutions is a compelling and well-crafted provocation for future scholars to `Bring the Noise.’” (Martin Law, Marx and Philosophy, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, April, 2016)