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Full-Text Articles in Audio Arts and Acoustics
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Fantasy And The Concert Hall: Musical Performance In The Electroacoustic Age, Matthew Malsky
Fantasy And The Concert Hall: Musical Performance In The Electroacoustic Age, Matthew Malsky
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
[First paragraph]
In 1941, the famously despondent Theodor Adorno worried about the detrimental effects of radio broadcast upon the symphony. He theorized that much of value was lost when listeners experienced an orchestral performance of a composition in symphonic form through its electronic transmission to their kitchens rather than in a concert hall. Based upon empirical research done in collaboration with Paul Lazarsfeld and the Princeton Radio Research Project, he argued that the presence of music was lost to the radio listener, and with it a part of music's auratic spell, its uniqueness in time and place, its ritual, cultish …