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Good Music - What It Is and Who Gets to Decide (Hardcover)
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Good Music - What It Is and Who Gets to Decide (Hardcover)
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Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a
particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep,
stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly
original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does
not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum
explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging
examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies,
jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues
that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived
strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question.
Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where
abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good
music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse
rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue
with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We
can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the
conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of
making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.
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