Musical Style and Social Meaning: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers On Critical Musicology Ser.)
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- Synopsis
- Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven his critical musicological research for many years. In this selection of essays, dating from 1995-2010, he returns time and again to examining how conventions of representation arise and how they become established. Among the themes of the collection are social class, ideology, national identity, imperialism, Orientalism, race, the sacred and profane, modernity and postmodernity, and the vexed relationship of art and entertainment. A wide variety of musical styles is discussed, ranging from jazz and popular song to the symphonic repertoire and opera.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 374 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781351556866
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780754629306, 9781315090696
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 07/12/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Derek B. Scott
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Music
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.