Music at the Limits
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0747598746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book to bring together three decades of Edward Said's essays and articles on music.
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Music at the Limits
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-06-22
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0231139373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera. Said saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. Eloquent and surprising, Music at the Limits preserves an important dimension of Said's brilliant intellectual work and cements his reputation as one of the most influential and groundbreaking scholars of the twentieth century.
Music at the Limits
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780231139366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera. Said saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. Eloquent and surprising, Music at the Limits preserves an important dimension of Said's brilliant intellectual work and cements his reputation as one of the most influential and groundbreaking scholars of the twentieth century.
Music at the Limits
Author: Edward Said
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1408845873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →_______________ 'Edward Said had a lifelong passion for music, and possessed the rare ability to write about it for the general reader with a lucid and penetrating intelligence' - TLS 'There are few whose command of words is sufficient not only to illuminate music, but to help music illuminate the world of those who make and listen to it. Said was one' - Daily Telegraph 'The sheer eloquence of Said's writings reminds us that with his untimely death we have lost one of our most distinguished music critics.' - Maynard Solomon, The Julliard School _______________ WITH A FOREWORD BY DANIEL BARENBOIM Music at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and performers, Said analyses music's social and political contexts, and provides rich and often surprising assessments. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits reinforces Said's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. _______________ 'This fine collection by one of the most perceptive music critics of the last half-century is highly recommended' - Library Journal
Death Metal and Music Criticism
Author: Michelle Phillipov
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0739164619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactionary. Studies tend to view the music as a reflection of these listeners' social conditions and are concerned with metal's pleasures so long as these can be seen within that context: as responses to cultural and economic circumstances. Michelle Phillipov's Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits, in contract, offers an account of listening pleasure on its own terms. Through an analysis of death metal's sonic and lyrical extremity, Phillipov shows how violence and aggression can be configured as sites for pleasure and play in death metal music, with little relation to the 'real' lives of listeners. In some cases, gruesome lyrical themes and fractured song forms invite listeners to imagine new experiences of the body and of the self. In others, the speed and complexity of the music foster a 'technical' or distanced appreciation akin to the viewing experiences of graphic horror film fans. These aspects of death metal listening are often neglected by scholarly accounts concerned with evaluating music as either 'progressive' or 'reactionary.' By contextualizing the discussion of death metal via substantial overviews of popular music studies as a field, Phillipov's Death Metal and Music Criticism highlights how the premium placed on political engagement in popular music studies not only circumscribes our understanding of the complexity and specificity of death metal, but of other musical styles as well. Exploring death metal at the limits of conventional music criticism helps not only to develop a more nuanced account of death metal listening—it also offers some important starting points for a rethinking of popular music scholarship as a whole.
Cultivating Music
Author: David Gramit
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-01-02
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780520927360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →German and Austrian music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stands at the heart of the Western musical canon. In this innovative study of various cultural practices (such as music journalism and scholarship, singing instruction, and concerts), David Gramit examines how music became an important part of middle-class identity. He investigates historical discourses around such topics as the aesthetic debates over the social significance of folk music, various comparisons of the musical practices of ethnic "others" to the German "norm," and the establishment of the concert as a privileged site of cultural activity. Cultivating Music analyzes the ideologies of German musical discourse during its formative period. Claiming music's importance to both social well-being and individual development, proponents of musical culture sought to secure the status of music as an art integral to bourgeois life. They believed that "music" referred to the autonomous musical work, meaningful in and of itself to those cultivated to experience it properly. The social limits to that cultivation ensured that boundaries of class, gender, and educational attainment preserved the privileged status of music despite (but also by means of) their claims for the "universality" of their canon. Departing from the traditional focus on individual musical works, Gramit considers the social history of the practice of music in Austro-German culture. He examines the origins of the privileged position of the Western canon in musicological discourses and argues that we cannot fully understand the role that canon has played without considering the interests that motivated its creators.
Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music
Author: Deborah R. Vargas
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0816673160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music
Musical Elaborations
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780231073196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the performance of Western high-art music, the politicized theorizing of it, and the use of "melody, solitude, and affirmation" in it.
Music in the Kitchen
Author: Glenda Pierce Facemire
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780292718159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Austin City Limits, The longest-running popular music series in American television history_a cookbook of authentic family recipes
Austin City Limits
Author: John Terry Davis
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The longest-running showcase on television today celebrates a quarter-century of the best of America's music--from country, blues, and folk, to rock, bluegrass, Tejano, and more--with this exuberant, informative, richly illustrated, and highly entertaining book for Austin City Limits fans (past, present, and future) and music fans everywhere.
