About this title: Advocates of "new musicology" claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. This text challenges those claims, asking why cultural, socio-political or gender-studies approaches to music should be deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact. Why should music analysis be thought incapable of serving larger aesthetic ends??;pVan den Toorn confronts Susan McClary, Leo Treitler, and Joseph Kerman in particular, arguing that hands-on music analysis can penetrate the complexity of music and speak to our ...
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780520201163ISBN:0520201167
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 252 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Wraps
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780520201156ISBN:0520201159
Description: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. Signed by Author Musical theory in the postmodern political and academic maelstrom. 238 pp. Signed and dated by Peter Van Den Toorn. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1996-01-01
ISBN-13:9780520201163ISBN:0520201167
Description: Very Good. University of California Press paperback in very good condition. Mild shelfwear. Spine is uncreased, binding and interior also in very good condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780520201163ISBN:0520201167
Description: Like New/No Jacket. 0520201167 like new, first edition, some shelf ware and bookstore stamp mark on page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780520201163ISBN:0520201167
Description: New. "I value this book for its idealism, its positive vote for autonomy and technical analysis, its courageous answer to feminist musicology, its exposure of the contradictions of academic politics. Its importance lies not in settling the debates but in... read more
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