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Shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. This book provides an account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.

Table of Contents
List of Musical Examples and Figure
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Prospects
Postmodernism and Musicology
2. From the Other to the Abject
Music as Cultural Trope
3. Music and Representation
In the Beginning with Haydn's Creation
4. Musical Narratology
A Theoretical Outline
5. Felix Culpa
Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Social Force of Musical Expression
6. The Lied as Cultural Practice
Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs
7. Cultural Politics and Musical Form
The Case of Charles Ives
8. Consuming the Exotic
Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe

Epilogue
Autonomy, Elvis, Cinders, Fingering Bach

Appendix: Mendelssohn: Three Goethe Songs
Notes
Index

Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 29 November 1996
      ISBN-13 9780520207004
      978-0520207004
      ISBN-10 0520207009
      Also in:
      Art music, orchestral and formal music Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. This book provides an account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.

      Table of Contents
      List of Musical Examples and Figure
      Preface
      Acknowledgments

      1. Prospects
      Postmodernism and Musicology
      2. From the Other to the Abject
      Music as Cultural Trope
      3. Music and Representation
      In the Beginning with Haydn's Creation
      4. Musical Narratology
      A Theoretical Outline
      5. Felix Culpa
      Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Social Force of Musical Expression
      6. The Lied as Cultural Practice
      Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs
      7. Cultural Politics and Musical Form
      The Case of Charles Ives
      8. Consuming the Exotic
      Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe

      Epilogue
      Autonomy, Elvis, Cinders, Fingering Bach

      Appendix: Mendelssohn: Three Goethe Songs
      Notes
      Index

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