Description
Book SynopsisThe 1990s have seen a growth of interest in questions of music history and meaning, together with their relationships to culture and society. This reader includes works which explore the cultural and social significance of music.
Trade ReviewThere is much to enjoy in Music, Culture, and Society, many of the readings making one want to go away and read more ... This is very much a collection to dip into, rather than to read from cover to cover, and will thus prove useful for postgraduates, or for musicologists wishing to get some idea about debates outside their own immediate concerns. * Music and Letters *
Timely ... presents a diversity of viewpoints around the central subject which often bounce off each other in intriguing ways ... Such a collection can perhaps be imagined as a kind of musicological party: some old friends (or perhaps enemies) are here, but there are plenty of new faces to get to know. * Music and Letters *
This book shows just how thoroughly and irrevocably [the] purist view of classical music has been shattered. * Ivan Hewett, BBC Music Magazine *
Table of ContentsPART I: MUSIC AND LANGUAGE ; PART II: MUSIC AND THE BODY (GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ETHNICITY) ; PART III: MUSIC AND CLASS ; PART IV: MUSIC AND CRITICISM ; PART V: MUSIC PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
