Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics (Paperback, Revised)

Drawn from the influential journal Perspectives of New Music, these essays reflect a variety of artistic viewpoints and critical perspectives. The contributors include composers Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt, literary scholar Douglas Collins, anthropologist Eric Gans, philosopher Michel Foucault, and poet Delmore Schwartz. The authors contemplate music's origins and function, the changing relations between music and society, the effects of today's conflicting aesthetic notions on composition, and the relationship between music and other communicative behaviors. Taken together, the essays suggest a working aesthetic that would ensure the continual renewal of artistic tradition in Western culture.

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1995
First published:	March 1995
Editors:	John Rahn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-96508-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-393-96508-2
Barcode:	9780393965087

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