From Handel to Hendrix keyword-levi-strauss brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed critic

brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist—and Bertolt Brecht

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From Handel to Hendrix keyword-levi-strauss brought together Walter Benjamin—acclaimed criticIn this book, a continuation of Michael Chanans investigation of the relation between music and society, the author examines the composer in the light of Jurgen Habermass study of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosophers remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the emergence of criticism and the development of autonomous music, Chanan examines the fate of the composer through successive incarnations, from Handel, Bach and