Staff profile

• Adorno and Critical Theory
• Aesthetics and sociology of music
• Concepts of the avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism
• Contemporary music
• Interdisciplinary interests in philosophy, cultural studies, popular music studies, film music, music and theatre (especially Brecht)
• Marxism and music
• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century music
• Theories of musical performance and reproduction

Authored book

• Paddison, M. (1996). Adorno, Modernism and Mass Culture: Essays on Critical Theory and Music. (Rev. ed. 2004). Kahn & Averill
• Paddison, M. (1993). Adorno's Aesthetics of Music. (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press

Chapter in book

• Paddison, M. (2011). Art and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno. In D. M. Grimley (Ed.), Jean Sibelius and his World (173-185). Princeton: Princeton University Press
• Paddison, M. (2010). Adorno and Exile: Some Thoughts on Displacement and What it Means to be German. In E. Levi, & F. Scheding (Eds.), Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond (135-153). Scarecrow Press
• Paddison, M. (2009). Reading History in the Ruins of Nature: Images of Truth, Mortality and Reconciliation in Adorno's Schubert Interpretation. In M. V. de Carvalho, R. Duarte, M. Paddison, O. Kolleritsch, S. Dierks, P. Boleo, J. J. Lopes, A. P. Vargas, J.-P. Olive, P. Riberiro, T. Wesche, P. F. de Castro, A. Martingo, & H.-K. Robert (Eds.), Expression, truth and authenticity : on Adorno's theory of music and musical performance (41-58). Calibri
• Paddison, M. (2008). Centres and Margins: Shifting Grounds in the Conceptualization of Modernism. In D. Despic, & M. Milin (Eds.), Rethinking Musical Modernism (65-81). Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU)
• Paddison, M. (2007). ‘Die vermittelte Unmittelbarkeit der Musik: Zum Vermittlungsbegriff in der Adornoschen Musikästhetik’. In A. Becker, & M. Vogel (Eds.), Musikalischer Sinn: Beiträge zu einer Philosophie der Musik (175-236). Suhrkamp
• Paddison, M. (2007). 'Performance, Analysis, and the Silent Work: The Problem of Critical Self-Reflexion in Adorno's Theory of Musical Reproduction'. In A. Nowak, & M. Fahlbusch (Eds.), Musikalische Analyse und Kritische Theorie: Zu Adornos Philosophie der Musik (221-245). Verlag Schneider
• Paddison, M. (2004). 'Authenticity and Failure in Adorno's Aesthetics of Music'. In T. Huhn (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to Adorno (198-221). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521772893
• Paddison, M. (2004). Nature and the Sublime: the Politics of Order and Disorder in Twentieth-Century Music. In J. Dunsby, J. N. Straus, Y. Knockaert, M. Paddison, & K. Boehmer (Eds.), Order and Disorder: Music-Theoretical Strategies in Twentieth-Century Music (107 - 136). Leuven University Press
• Paddison, M. (2004). ‘Nature and the Sublime: The Politics of Order and Disorder in Twentieth-Century Music’. In Order and Disorder: Music-Theoretical Strategies in Twentieth-Century Music (107-136). Leuven University Press
• Paddison, M. (2003). 'Stravinsky as devil: Adorno's three critiques'. In J. Cross (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to Stravinsky (192-202). Cambridge University Press
• Paddison, M. (2002). 'Music as Ideal: the Aesthetics of Autonomy'. In J. Samson (Ed.), The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music (318-342). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521590175
• Paddison, M. (2002). 'The sociology of music'. In A. Latham (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Music (1167-1169). (New ed.). Oxford University Press
• Paddison, M. (2001). 'Immanent Critique or Musical Stocktaking? Adorno and the Problem of Musical Analysis'. In N. Gibson, & A. Rubin (Eds.), Adorno : a critical reader (209-233). Blackwell
• Paddison, M. (2001). 'Postmodernisme et la survie de l'avant-garde'. In I. Deliege, & M. Paddison (Eds.), Musique contemporaine: perspectives theoriques et philosophiques (249-266). Mardaga
• Paddison, M. (2001). 'Perspectives critiques sur la musique et les relations sociales: vers une theorie de la mediation'. In I. Deliege, & M. Paddison (Eds.), Musique contemporaine: perspectives theoriques et philosophiques (293-301). Mardaga
• Paddison, M. (2000). 'T.W. Adorno', 'Frank Zappa', 'Lou Reed', 'The Velvet Underground', 'Expression after 1800'. In S. Sadie, & J. Tyrrell (Eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (New ed., online.). Macmillan
• Paddison, M. (1998). 'The language-character of music: some motifs in Adorno' rev.ed. In R. Klein, & C.-S. Mahnkopf (Eds.), Mit den Ohren denken: Adornos Philosophie der Musik (71-91). Suhrkamp
• Paddison, M. (1992). 'Adorno'. In S. Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan

Conference Paper

• Paddison, M. (2010, December). Time, Tradition and Modernity in the Music of Ljubica Maric: A Bergsonian Interpretation. Presented at Spaces of Modernism: Ljubica Maric in Context., Belgrade
• Paddison, M. (2000, December). 'The idea of an avant-garde in the context of postmodernity: some problems of definition in contemporary music'. Presented at Contemporary Music: Theories and Philosophy, Brussels

Edited book

• Paddison, M., & Deliège, I. (Eds.). (2010). Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives. Ashgate Publishing
• Deliege, I., & Paddison, M. (Eds.). (2001). Musique contemporaine: perspectives theoriques et philosophiques. Mardaga

Journal Article

• Paddison, M. (2011). La postmodernidad y la supervivencia de la vanguardia. Quodlibet (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid), 50((May-August)), 60-84
• Paddison, M. (2010). Mimesis and the Aesthetics of Musical Expression. Music Analysis, 29(1-3), 126-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2249.2011.00333.x
• Paddison, M. (2006). Performance and the silent work: mediation and critical reflexion in Adorno's theory of musical reproduction. Filigrane, La société dans l’écriture musicale(3), 173-198
• Paddison, M. (2005). 'Il concetto di natura nell'estetica musicale di Adorno'
• Paddison, M. (2004). 'Performance, Reification, and Score: the Dialectics of Spatialization and Temporality in the Experience of Music'. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 3, 157-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649040080s111
• Paddison, M. (2004). 'Aspects of time in the creation of music II: reponses and new departures'. Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 3.(Aspects du temps dans la creation musicale.), 89-99
• Paddison, M. (1999). ‘Der Komponist als Kritischer Theoretiker - Brian Ferneyhoughs Ästhetik nach Adorno’
• Paddison, M. (1991). 'The language-character of music: some motifs in Adorno'. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 116(2), 267-279. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrma/116.2.267
• Paddison, M. (1987). 'Adorno's Aesthetic Theory'. Music Analysis, 6(3), 355-377
• Paddison, M. (1982). 'Introduction' and annotated translation of T.W. Adorno, 'On the problem of musical analysis'. Music Analysis, 1(2), 169-187
• Paddison, M. (1982). 'The critique criticised: Adorno and popular music'. Popular Music, 2(Theory and Method.), 201-218. https://doi.org/10.1017/s026114300000129x