All music : essays on the hermeneutics of music
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All music : essays on the hermeneutics of music
Avebury, c1996
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Description
With essays covering such genres as opera, rap and instrumental music, this work aims to exemplify how music can be analyzed from a socio-cultural perspective. It explores the idea of music itself as a social creation and includes issues such as the social construction of New Age music.
Table of Contents
- On the hermeneutics of music
- music, communication and the "world" - an orchestration of Georg Simmel's "The Ruin"
- the social process of opera - reflections occasioned by the centenary of Falstaff
- Alexander Scriabin and the question of being
- typification, transcendence, and critique - on the social construction of New Age music
- rock and roll, religion and the deconstruction of American values
- art versus evangelism - the tensions of contemporary Christian music
- war at 33 1/3 - exploring hip-hop (rap) music
- the hermeneutics of popular song - popular music as text of culture and intergroup politics
- when the music plays you - cultural revolt and expression in Santana.
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