Bibliograph

Music and the politics of negation, James R. Currie

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Music and the politics of negation, James R. Currie

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Music and the politics of negation

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

James R. Currie

Summary

Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placing music firmly within its various historical and social contexts. In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb the validity of this now quite orthodox claim. Alternating dialectically between analytic and historical investigations into the late 18th century and the present, he poses a set of uncomfortable questions regarding the limits and complicities of the values that the academy keeps in circulation by means of its musical encounters. His overriding thesis is that the forces that have formed us are not our fate

Target audience

adult

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