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This text attempts to open up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music - the "classical" music composed between the 18th and early-20th centuries that is, for many losing both its prestige and it's appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from real world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than transcendent. This book aims to show how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints Kramer draws out the musical implications of contemporary efforts to understand reason, language and subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical expression begun in his earlier "Music as Cultural Practice", he regards music not only as an object that invites aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the personal, social and cultural identities of its listeners. In language accessible to non-specialists but informative to specialists, Kramer provides an account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.

Table of Contents:
List of Musical Examples and Figure  Preface  Acknowledgments  1. Prospects     Postmodernism and Musicology  2. From the Other to the Abject     Music as Cultural Trope  3. Music and Representation     In the Beginning with Haydn's Creation  4. Musical Narratology     A Theoretical Outline  5. Felix Culpa     Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Social Force of Musical Expression  6. The Lied as Cultural Practice     Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs  7. Cultural Politics and Musical Form     The Case of Charles Ives  8. Consuming the Exotic     Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe      Epilogue  Autonomy, Elvis, Cinders, Fingering Bach  Appendix: Mendelssohn: Three Goethe Songs  Notes  Index 

About the Author :
Lawrence Kramer teaches in the Humanities Department at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, and is an active composer. He has published two previous books with California: Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984) and Music as Cultural Practice (1990). Both are available in paperback.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520088207
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 278
  • Weight: 635 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520088204
  • Publisher Date: 24 Aug 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm


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