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Why Classical Music Still Matters (Paperback)
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Why Classical Music Still Matters (Paperback)
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Loot Price R562
Discovery Miles 5 620
You Save R109 (16%)
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"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence
Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully
written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been
predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch
advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real
concerns about its viability. "Why Classical Music Still Matters"
takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music
lovers alike.
In seven highly original chapters, "Why Classical Music Still
Matters" affirms the value of classical music--defined as a body of
nontheatrical music produced since the eighteenth century with the
single aim of being listened to--by revealing what its values are:
the specific beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has
supported in the past and which, Kramer believes, it can support in
the future.
"Why Classical Music Still Matters" also clears the air of old
prejudices. Unlike other apologists, whose defense of the music
often depends on arguments about the corrupting influence of
popular culture, Kramer admits that classical music needs a
broader, more up-to-date rationale. He succeeds in engaging the
reader by putting into words music's complex relationship with
individual human drives and larger social needs. In prose that is
fresh, stimulating, and conversational, he explores the nature of
subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization
of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the
liberation of human energy.
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