Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss.
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The emergence of performance as an "extreme occasion" begins this absorbing analysis of the cultural and social contexts of Western classical music. Said (humanities, Columbia) juxtaposes its specialized, technically superior, and commercially packaged nature against the private worlds of performer and listener, expertly drawing throughout from noted writers including Theodor Adorno and Joseph Kerman and from such singular careers as Arturo Toscanini and Glenn Gould. Particularly compelling are the questions of the intrinsic nature of music itself and of its curious interrelationships with politics, national culture, and critical thought. Provocative commentary on Wagner's Die Meister singer and Bach's B Minor Mass , for example, demonstrates how music has both reflected and influenced society, while remaining in the artistic realm. Scholarly and thought-provoking, this is best suited for academic libraries.
- Carol J. Bin kowski, Bloomfield, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Carol J. Bin kowski, Bloomfield, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Not since Virgil Thomson have we had a music critic with as wide ranging a view as Edward Said.He informs us not only of a performer's veracity, but of the social climate that flavors it. -- Studs Terkel
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One of the significant statements in contemporary literary criticism occurs at the opening of Richard Poirier's classic essay "The Performing Self." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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One of the significant statements in contemporary literary criticism occurs at the opening of Richard Poirier's classic essay "The Performing Self." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concert occasion, performance occasion, disciplinary society Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Die Meistersinger, Glenn Gould, Richard Strauss, Pierre Boulez, Doctor Faustus, Donald Francis Tovey, Philosophy of Modern Music, Cambridge University Press, Carnegie Hall, New Left Books, The Invention of Tradition, Umm Kalthoum New!
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- Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann on 5 pages
- Philosophy of Modern Music (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno on page 13, page 21, and page 48
- Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations by Otto Friedrich on page 22, page 29, and page 32
- The Magic Flute (The Black Dog Opera Library) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 58, and page 62
- Glenn Gould Reader by Tim Page on page 26, and page 105
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- Edward Said and Critical Decolonization (Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics) by AUC Press on 21 pages
- Music & Meaning by Jenefer Robinson on 6 pages
- Dance, Desire, And Anxiety in Early Twentieth-century French Theater: Playing Identities by Charles R. Batson on 6 pages
- The Edward Said Reader by Edward W. Said on 5 pages
- Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought) by William D. Hart on 4 pages
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