Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception

Leppert, Richard & McClary, Susan (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0521379776 / ISBN 13: 9780521379779

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521379776
• ISBN 13: 9780521379779
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Socially and politically grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotics and deconstruction have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts and humanities are studied. This provocative volume of essays challenges the ideology that insists music occupies an autonomous sphere. By examining the ways in which music and society interact with and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries, these authors--musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists--provide a sound argument.

From the Back Cover

This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume--musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists--all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere.