Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse
interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that
speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler
invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the
forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary
collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for
the first time in English, Pasler deconstructs the social, moral,
and political preoccupations lurking behind aesthetic taste.
Arguing that learning from musical experience is vital to our
understanding of past, present, and future, Pasler's work
trenchantly reasserts the role of music as a crucial contributor to
important public debates about who we can be as individuals,
communities, and nations.
The author's wide-ranging and perceptive approaches to musical
biography and history challenge us to rethink our assumptions about
important cultural and philosophical issues including national
identity and postmodern musical hybridity, material culture, the
economics of power, and the relationship between classical and
popular music. Her work uncovers the self-fashioning of modernists
such as Vincent d'Indy, Augusta Holmes, Jean Cocteau, and John
Cage, and addresses categories such as race, gender, and class in
the early 20th century in ways that resonate with experiences
today. She also explores how music uses time and constructs
narrative. Pasler's innovative and influential methodological
approaches, such as her notion of "question-spaces," open up the
complex cultural and political networks in which music
participates. This provides us with the reasons and tools to engage
with music in fresh and exciting ways.
In these thoughtful essays, music--whether beautiful or
cacophonous, reassuring or seemingly incomprehensible--comes alive
as a bearer of ideas and practices that offers deep insights into
how we negotiate the world. Here, Jann Pasler's Writing through
Music brilliantly demonstrates how music can be a critical lens to
focus the contemporary critical, cultural, historical, and social
issues of our time.
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