The Political Force of Musical Beauty /

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shank, Barry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music > Social aspects.
Music > Political aspects.
Group identity in the performing arts.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Identite collective dans les arts du spectacle.
Musique > Aspect politique.
Musique > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A prelude
  • Listening to the political
  • The anthem and the condensation of context
  • Turning inward, inside out
  • two Japanese musicians confront the limits of tradition
  • "Heroin"; or, the droning of the commodity
  • The conundrum of authenticity and the limits of rock
  • 1969; or, the performance of political melancholy
  • Coda listening through the aural imaginary.

Similar Items