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Music and the Politics of Negation

Music and the Politics of Negation - Musical Meaning & Interpretation

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Publisher's Synopsis

Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb the validity of this now quite orthodox claim. Alternating dialectically between analytic and historical investigations into the late 18th century and the present, he poses a set of uncomfortable questions regarding the limits and complicities of the values that the academy keeps in circulation by means of its musical encounters. His overriding thesis is that the forces that have formed us are not our fate.

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ISBN: 9780253357038
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 780.9
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 518g
Height: 238mm
Width: 169mm
Spine width: 23mm