Classical music and postmodern knowledge /
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music--the ""classical"" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this musi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1995.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711702 |
| Summary: | A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music--the ""classical"" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can take on new mean. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages) : music |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520918429 0520918428 0585370451 9780585370453 0520088204 9780520088207 0520207009 |