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How is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, Music and Belonging explores the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, reveals connections between listening and constructions of community, and testifies to Classical music's enduring political significance in an age of neoliberal exclusion.

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Waltham-Smith's ingenious analysis opens up productive conversations between unlikely interlocutors (Deleuze and Caplin, Nietzsche and Mozart), prompting us to contend anew with what each can offer to our understanding of music and its value. And her insights into the musical creativity of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven offer a novel way to engage with the enduring value of this repertory, and the real possibility of hearing this music with a new ear. * Beth M. Snyder, Eighteenth-Century Music *
Waltham-Smith's Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration is an impressive, thought-provoking interpretation of works of the Austro-German canon as 'paradigmatic' of a politics of belonging and community * Jeremy Coleman, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 8/17/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780190662004, 978-0190662004
      ISBN10: 019066200X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, Music and Belonging explores the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, reveals connections between listening and constructions of community, and testifies to Classical music's enduring political significance in an age of neoliberal exclusion.

      Trade Review
      Waltham-Smith's ingenious analysis opens up productive conversations between unlikely interlocutors (Deleuze and Caplin, Nietzsche and Mozart), prompting us to contend anew with what each can offer to our understanding of music and its value. And her insights into the musical creativity of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven offer a novel way to engage with the enduring value of this repertory, and the real possibility of hearing this music with a new ear. * Beth M. Snyder, Eighteenth-Century Music *
      Waltham-Smith's Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration is an impressive, thought-provoking interpretation of works of the Austro-German canon as 'paradigmatic' of a politics of belonging and community * Jeremy Coleman, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *

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