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Classical Music in a Changing Culture - Essays from The American Record Guide (Hardcover)
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Classical Music in a Changing Culture - Essays from The American Record Guide (Hardcover)
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Founded in 1935, The American Record Guide is America's oldest
classical music review magazine. In 1987, when Donald Vroon assumed
its editorship, he took on the Herculean task of writing editorials
on a vast array of subjects, amassing a wealth of commentary and
criticism on not only the foibles and failings, but glimmers of
light in American culture. A staunch defender of the highbrow
pleasures of good music composed, played, and heard with
intelligence, Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges
and failures and possible successes that confront America's future
as a nation of music listeners. In Classical Music in a Changing
Culture: Essays from The American Record Guide, Vroon delves into a
variety of topics: orchestra finances, contemporary music,
classical music marketing, attracting young crowds, musical
aesthetics, the future of classical music, the sale and
distribution of music in the modern era; the decline of American
culture and its causes; the role of misguided ideologies that
affect American music, from political correctness to
multiculturalism to period performance practice, and the true
richness of our music and its subculture. As Vroon argues, since
all criticism is cultural criticism, music criticism in the
broadest sense-from its composition to its distribution to its
reception-is a window onto broader culture issues. Classical Music
in a Changing Culture should appeal to anyone serious about
classical music and worried about its increasing marginalization in
our contemporary culture. These essays are not written for
specialists but for thinking readers who love music and care about
its place in our lives.
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