Music and society : the politics of composition, performance, and reception
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Music and society : the politics of composition, performance, and reception
Cambridge University Press, 1987
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This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and politically grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotics and deconstruction have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts and humanities are studied, leading in turn to a systematic investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that insists there is a division between music and society and examine the ways in which the two do in fact interact and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: the ideology of autonomous art Janet Wolff
- 1. The blasphemy of talking politics Bach Year Susan McClary
- 2. Music, domestic life and cultural chauvinism: images of British subjects at home in India Richard Leppert
- 3. On grounding Chopin Rose Rosengard Subotnik
- 4. Towards an aesthetic of popular music Simon Frith
- 5. Music and male hegemony John Shepherd
- 6. The sound of music in the era of its electronic reproducibility John Mowitt
- Index.
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