Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception
, by Edited by Richard Leppert , Susan McClaryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521379779 | 0521379776
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/1989
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. Recently, 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, leading in turn to a systematic investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that insists there is a division between music and society and examine the ways in which the two do in fact interact and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.