Music and Its Social Meanings

ISBN-13: 9781138176058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 202 str.

Christopher Ballantine

Opis

First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Music and Society: The Forgotten Relationship; Chapter 2 Beethoven, Hegel and Marx; Chapter 3 Social and Philosophical Outlook in Mozart’s Operas; Chapter 4 Charles Ives and the Meaning of Quotation in Music; Chapter 5 A Musical Triptych: The Contemporary Scene; Chapter 6 An Aesthetic of Experimental Music; Chapter 7 A Revaluation of Sibelius’ Symphonies;

O autorze

CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE holds degrees from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cambridge and Cape Town, and has carried out research in various musical fields including twentieth-century music, African music, and Marxist sociology and aesthetics of music. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. Dr Ballantine is currently Professor of Music at the University of Natal.