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Music, Modernity, and God - Essays in Listening (Hardcover)
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Music, Modernity, and God - Essays in Listening (Hardcover)
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When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective,
music is routinely ignored - despite its pervasiveness in modern
culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with
modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God. In
conversation with musicologists and music theorists, in this
collection of essays Jeremy Begbie aims to show that the practices
of music and the discourses it has generated bear their own kind of
witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and
counter-currents shaping modernity. Music has been deeply affected
by these currents and in some cases may have played a part in
generating them. In addition, Begbie argues that music is capable
of yielding highly effective ways of addressing and moving beyond
some of the more intractable theological problems and dilemmas
which modernity has bequeathed to us. Music, Modernity, and God
includes studies of Calvin, Luther and Bach, an exposition of the
intriguing tussle between Rousseau and the composer Rameau, and an
account of the heady exaltation of music to be found in the early
German Romantics. Particular attention is paid to the complex
relations between music and language, and the ways in which
theology, a discipline involving language at its heart, can come to
terms with practices like music, practices which are coherent and
meaningful but which in many respects do not operate in
language-like ways.
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