Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society
Language: English
Published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1995
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xlvii, 327 pp. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Some scuffing to covers and spine, and some reading-wear and bumping to corners, but binding, covers and spine fully intact. Text unmarked. Rose Rosengard Subotnik's concerns are formal and sociological, linking music to its social and cultural context. Deconstructive Variations is a sequel to Subotnik's previous collection, Developing Variations. It expands and continues her achievement: the promotion of humanistic criticism as a significant activity in music scholarship, and the portrayal of Western art music in relation to the social structures and cultural values of the society that created it. Subotnik applies the insights of Kant, Adorno, Bakhtin, and Derrida to major works of Mozart and Chopin. Each of these essays argues for and against the ideal of structural listening; Enlightenment and Romantic readings of The Magic Flute; high-modernist and postmodernist readings of Chopin's A-Major Prelude; and conceptions of reason put forward by Allan Bloom and Spike Lee.…
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- Title
- Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society
- Author
- Subotnik, Rose Rosengard
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816621985
- ISBN 13
- 9780816621989
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 560 grams
- Dimensions
- 3 centimeters width by 15.2 centimeters height by 22.8 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Music and musicology
Deconstructive Variations was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Unique in its focus and its interdisciplinary reach, Rose Rosengard Subotnik's work is among the most original and challenging being done in American musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, firmly linking music to social and cultural context and breaking down the barriers between music and life.
Deconstructive Variations is a sequel to Subotnik's previous collection, Developing Variations. It expands and continues her achievement-the promotion of humanistic criticism as a significant activity in music scholarship and the portrayal of Western art music in relation to the social structures and cultural values of the society that created it.
Bringing to her subject a vast range of philosophical, artistic, and historical knowledge, Subotnik applies the insights of Kant, Adorno, Bakhtin, and Derrida to major works of Mozart and Chopin. Each of these essays functions as an argument between two views: for and against the ideal of structural listening; Enlightenment and Romantic readings of The Magic Flute; high-modernist and postmodernist readings of Chopin's A-Major Prelude; and conceptions of reason put forward by Allan Bloom and Spike Lee.
Rose Rosengard Subotnik is professor emerita in the department of music at Brown University, and is the author of Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music (Minnesota, 1991).
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