Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521327806 ISBN 13 : 9780521327800

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'Among the year's most stimulating reading material' The Observer

'This is an important book, crowded ... with new ideas and arguments that challenge many of our assumptions.' The Musical Times

' ... most rewarding ... As a collection of humanistic scholarship that amplifies the best sociological tradition ... it is highly recommended.' Contemporary Sociology

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0521327806
• ISBN 13: 9780521327800
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224