1st Edition

Music and Ideology Resisting the Aesthetic

Edited By Adam Krims Copyright 1998
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of essays, which reflects the views of music scholars who bring postmodern critical theory to bear on the theory and analysis of music, is long overdue. The essayists in this volume are not fixated on aesthetics; rather, they focus on the social and discursive concerns that had previously been considered marginal to their subject. 'Music/Ideology' is a response to the question:... Read more
Introduction to the Series, Foreword: Corresponding Scores, Introduction: Postmodern Musical Poetics and the Problem of “Close Reading”, “A Few Words to Sing”, Feminist Theory, Music Theory, and the Mind/Body Problem, Superior Myths, Dogmatic Allegories: The Resistance to Musical Unity, Rewriting Schenker: Narrative— History—Ideology, Analytical Fictions, Lieder, Listeners, and Ideology: Schubert’s “Alinde” and Opus 81, The Silence of the Frames, Voices Within the Voice: Geno-text and Pheno-text in Berio’s Sequenza III, Desire, Repression and Brahms’s First Symphony, Commentary: Poststructuralism and Issues of Music Theory, Permissions

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Adam Krims