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Routledge
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Routledge
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First Published in 1984. This is the second volume in a series on musicology and related areas edited by F. Joseph Smith. Deciphering the specific social characteristics of music has long lagged behind the analytical dissection of musical composition and biographical musicology. The essays in this volume have been produced in an attempt to redress the balance. The sociology of music as... Read more
Chapter 1 Music and Society: The Forgotten Relationship; Chapter 2 Beethoven, Hegel and Marx; Chapter 3 Social and Philosophical Outlook in Mozart’s Operas; Chapter 4 Charles Ives and the Meaning of Quotation in Music; Chapter 5 A Musical Triptych: The Contemporary Scene; Chapter 6 An Aesthetic of Experimental Music; Chapter 7 A Revaluation of Sibelius’ Symphonies;
Biography
CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE holds degrees from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cambridge and Cape Town, and has carried out research in various musical fields including twentieth-century music, African music, and Marxist sociology and aesthetics of music. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. Dr Ballantine is currently Professor of Music at the University of Natal.
