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. 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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