Doppelschläge

*Doppelschläge* is more than just a collection of writings on musical aesthetics . Texte zur Musik 3 is the intellectual portrait of one of the most uncompromising musical thinkers of the postwar European era. Konrad Boehmer does not write about music as a self-contained art form, but as a social practice—political, historical, and critical of ideology. His texts explore power and responsibility, the conditions of musical production, and the question of whom music serves and whom it contradicts.

The focus is on political essays, lectures, and interventions from the late 1960s and 1970s. Boehmer engages with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hanns Eisler, Theodor W. Adorno, and Carl Orff; analyzes the sociology of music, music education, and cultural policy; and develops a fundamental critique of the idea of supposedly autonomous art. From Monteverdi and Mozart to the 20th-century avant-garde, he demonstrates that music is always part of social debates. In doing so, he combines analytical precision with polemical sharpness and a style that is as combative as it is passionate.

Edited by Stefan Fricke, this volume makes numerous texts—many of which have long been out of print or were previously difficult to access—available again for the first time and provides editorial context. A new foreword looks back on the political and aesthetic struggles of those years without romanticizing them.

"Double Beats: Texts on Music 3 " is a book for anyone who wants not only to listen to music but also to understand it—as an aesthetic experience, a social practice, and a political arena. Provocative, insightful, and surprisingly timely, this volume invites readers to rethink fundamental questions about art, culture, and their role in society.

The book will be released on October 31 and is already available for pre-order.