Music, Politics, and the Academy

by Pieter C. van den Toorn

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Advocates of "new musicology" claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. Pieter C. van den Toorn challenges those claims, asking why cultural, sociopolitical, or gender-studies approaches to music should be deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact. Why should music analysis be thought incapable of serving larger aesthetic ends?

Van den Toorn confronts...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520201167

ISBN13:9780520201163

Release Date:January 1996

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Appreciation Arts & Literature Arts, Music & Photography College & University Composers & Musicians Education Education & Reference History & Criticism Music

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