The political force of musical beauty /
In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing on the ways in which music enables the cir...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Refiguring American music.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing on the ways in which music enables the circulation of political messages, he argues that communities grounded in the act and experience of listening can give rise to new political ideas and expression. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780822376750 082237675X |