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This book collects Adornian contributions on different trends, genres and artists belonging to the broad and complex and in-itself-articulated field of popular music. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Adorno’s death, this book aims to represent an important contribution for the international community of Adorno scholars and, additionally, for scholars of both philosophy and musicology in general, in order to assess and celebrate the persistent actuality of Adorno’s contribution to the understanding of popular music in the context of the dynamics and processes of the culture industry. But the book also aims to critically rethink some of the main concepts and themes of Adorno's influential philosophy of music and thus to develop it at a further level, also intersecting it with other philosophical perspectives or adapting it when necessary to the partially changed conditions of popular music in our time in comparison to his epoch.

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Colin J. Campbell is a Sessional Lecturer in Communication and Culture for the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at OCAD University in Toronto. Samir Gandesha is Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities, and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at the Simon Fraser University of Vancouver. Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna.

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