Classical music and postmodern knowledge /

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music--the ""classical"" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this musi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Postmodernism.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
Postmodernisme.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > General.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Postmodernism
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Musical Examples and Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. Prospects
  • Two. From the Other to the Abject
  • Three. Music and Representation
  • Four. Musical Narratology
  • Five. Felix Culpa
  • Six. The Lied as Cultural Practice
  • Seven. Cultural Politics and Musical Form
  • Eight. Consuming the Exotic
  • Epilogue à 4
  • Appendix. Mendelssohn
  • Notes
  • Index

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