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Why Classical Music Still Matters

Door Lawrence Kramer

Categorie	Algemeen Muziek
Boeknummer	#246055
Titel	Why Classical Music Still Matters
Auteur	Kramer, Lawrence
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Berkeley etc., University of California Press
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0520250826
ISBN13	9780520250826
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. Why Classical Music Still Matters takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. In seven highly original chapters, Why Classical Music Still Matters affirms the value of classical music-defined as a body of nontheatrical music produced since the eighteenth century with the single aim of being listened to-by revealing what its values are: the specific beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has support... (Lees verder)ed in the past and which, Kramer believes, it can support in the future. Why Classical Music Still Matters also clears the air of old prejudices. Unlike other apologists, whose defense of the music often depends on arguments about the corrupting influence of popular culture, Kramer admits that classical music needs a broader, more up-to-date rationale. He succeeds in engaging the reader by putting into words music's complex relationship with individual human drives and larger social needs. In prose that is fresh, stimulating, and conversational, he explores the nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy.
Pagina's	242
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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