En este artículo se propone un doble itinerario: por lado, analizar el cruce entre la cultura musical y crisis de sociedad burguesa en pensamiento Hanns Eisler, publicado Musik und Politik (1973, 1982 1983). Por otro considerará su trabajo compositivo fundamentalmente, Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow, 1932) Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, 1943). La elección los ejemplos obedece a siguientes motivos: p...

through close scrutiny of the odessa steps sequence in sergei eisenstein's 1924 film, battleship potemkin, this article argues that the rhythmic editing of the film demands accompanying music based on the same rhythmic system. since eisenstein had a musical structure in mind for the editing of this sequence, composers of film music tasked themselves with expressing his rhythmic visual patt...

This article examines some of the ideas that Theodor Adorno elucidated around the term “cultural industry”, compiling mainly the ideas published in the text “Aesthetic Theory” of 1970. The term “cultural industry” is also contextualized in the article with the reflections that Adorno previously exposed since 1947. Concerning the relation between art and autonomy the ideas of Adorno offer elemen...

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

Mathematician Ralph Abraham recounts memories of Dave Loye, Riane Eisler, Ervin Laszlo, the General Evolution Research Group, and their 37-year partnership.