Music and Capitalism: Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm in the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Sagall, Sabby

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137520949 ISBN 13 : 9781137520944

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through its impact on our emotional life. There is a structural correspondence between society and music. The emergence of 'modern art music' and its stylistic changes since the rise of capitalist social relations reflect the development of capitalist society since the decline of European feudalism. The leading composers of the different eras expressed in music the aspirations of the dominant or aspiring social classes. Changes in musical style not only reflect but in turn help to shape changes in society. This book analyses the stylistic changes in music from the emergence of 'tonality' in the late seventeenth century until the Second World War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sabby Sagall is a former Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London, UK. He writes regularly for the Socialist Review and Socialist Worker, and is the author of Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism, and Genocide (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137520949
• ISBN 13: 9781137520944
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 372
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