Music and Society - The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception (Book, New Ed)

This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and politically grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotics and deconstruction have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts and humanities are studied, leading in turn to a systematic investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that insists there is a division between music and society and examine the ways in which the two do in fact interact and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1989
First published:	1987
Editors:	Richard Leppert • Susan McClary
Dimensions:	154 x 228 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Book
Pages:	224
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-37977-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
LSN:	0-521-37977-6
Barcode:	9780521379779

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