Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern
philosophy of history. This book presents a new theory of how to
write music history, and offers an exemplar of this new theory in
action, in a series of four chapter-length reflexions on
Beethoven's heroic style. The first book-length theory of music
history since Carl Dahlhaus's Foundations of Music History, it
brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern
philosophy of history. While the book engages with current
thinking, it also goes further than the postmodern critique of
history writing to find a new and positive basis for the writing of
music history. In so doing the book revisits the philosophy of
Alain Badiou: in place of a focus on the facts, the objects of
history, whose problematic relation to history writing the
theorists have demonstrated, the book proposes a focus instead on
the subjects of history, the 'faithful', 'reactive, and 'obscure'
responses to an 'Event' (a kind of rapture of ontology which brings
the actors involved closer to a truth). It sees musical materials
(the styles, techniques, and musical 'language' handed down to
composers by history) in a dialectical relationship with the human
beings who are music's manifold historical actors. Engagingly
written, this new short theory of music history will be essential
reading for scholars and students of the many area studies within
music history. It will also attract those of neighbouring
disciplines dealing with the philosophy of history or the history
of historiography.
General
| Imprint: |
The Boydell Press
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
April 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
J.P.E. Harper-Scott
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 139 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
247 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78327-599-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-78327-599-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781783275991 |
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