In this Book
- Music and the Politics of Negation
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xxii
- 2 Dreams (Fugal Counterpoint)
- pp. 34-64
- 4 Enchantment (Mozart, La clemenza di Tito)
- pp. 100-138
- 5 Forgetting (Edward Said)
- pp. 139-178
- Bibliography
- pp. 203-210
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253005229
Related ISBN(s)
9780253357038
MARC Record
OCLC
859674049
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-09-21
Language
English
Open Access
No