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Writing through music : essay on music, culture, and politics /

List of Illustrations. List of Musical Examples. Introduction. I. Time, Narrative, and Memory. 1. Narrative and Narrativity in Music. 2. Postmodernism, Narrativity, and the Art of Memory. 3. Resituating the Spectral Revolution: French Antecedents. II. Self-Fashioning. 4. Deconstructing d'Indy,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pasler, Jann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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  • Time, narrative, and memory. Narrative and narrativity in music ; Postmodernism, narrativity, and the art of memory ; Resituating the spectral revolution : French antecedents
  • Self-fashioning. Deconstructing d'Indy, or the problem of a composer's reputation ; New music as confrontation : the musical sources of Cocteau's identity ; Inventing a tradition : John Cage's "Composition in retrospect"
  • Identity and nation. Pelléas and power : forces behind the reception of Debussy's opera ; The ironies of gender, or virility and politics in the music of Augusta Holmès ; Race, orientalism, and distinction in the wake of the "Yellow peril"
  • Patrons and patronage. Countess Greffulhe as entrepreneur : negotiating class, gender, and nation ; The political economy of composition in the American university, 1965-1985
  • The everyday life of the past. Concert programs and their narratives as emblems of ideology ; Material culture and postmodern positivism : rethinking the "popular" in late nineteenth-century French music.