Description
Book SynopsisShows 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 ContentsList 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
