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Contents: Introduction. Part I Aurality: On reading Adorno hearing Schubert; Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity: Fitzcarraldo; 'Everybody's lonesome for somebody': age, the body, and experience in the music of Hank Williams (co-authored with George Lipsitz); Gender sonics: the voice of Patsy Cline. Part II Visuality: The prodigal son: Teniers and Ghezzi; Concert in a House: musical iconography and musical thought; Imagery, musical confrontation and cultural difference in early 18th-century London; Male agony: awakening conscience; The musician of the imagination. Part III Practice: Music teachers of upper-class amateur musicians in 18th-century England; Music and the body: dance, power, submission. Part IV Utopia: Nature and exile: Adorno, Mahler and the appropriation of kitsch; Four hands, once again [by Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Jonathan Wipplinger]; Four hands, three hearts: a commentary: Music 'pushed to the edge of existence' (Adorno, listening, and the question of hope); Index.