Description
Book SynopsisA radical re-assessment of the post-modern study of music
Trade ReviewAlthough many authors have sought to bring together critical studies and music, Currie's book is original in both style and substance. Erudite and loquacious, Currie is a gifted storyteller whose work merits study by advanced scholars. His individual approach to the impasse created by the new musicology establishes a model by which that gulf might be bridged without returning to the status quo.
* Choice *
Music and the Politics of Negation is an important spur for post-new-musicological discussion of the political in/as music. . . . This book is also a benchmark for meaning-rich, close music analysis.
* Notes *
[This] book's great strength is the way in which it binds together eighteenth-century and contemporary issues, and in doing so, both probes and perpetuates the prestige of the Viennese classics.94.3 2013
* Music & Letters *
[J]ames Currie's book . . . organizes a series of close readings of compositions by Mozart and Haydn . . . .67.3 Fall 2014
* Jrnl American Musicological Soc JAMS *
Table of ContentsPreface: A No-Music
1. Veils (Mozart, Piano Concerto K. 459, Finale)
2. Dreams (Fugal Counterpoint)
3. Exile (Haydn, String Quartet Op. 33, No. 5)
4. Enchantment (Mozart, La clemenza di Tito)
5. Forgetting (Edward Said)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
