From Handel to Hendrix: The Composer in the Public Sphere

Chanan, Michael

ISBN 10: 1859847064 / ISBN 13: 9781859847060

Editore: Verso, 1999

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1859847064I2N00

Riassunto:

In his new book, Michael Chanan examines the composer as a public figure in the light of Habermas's study of the transformation of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the emergence of criticism and the development of autonomous music, Chanan examines the fate of the composer through successive incarnations, from Handel, Bach and Rousseau in the eighteenth century to contrasting examples such as Kurt Weill and Duke Ellington, or John Cage and Pierre Boulez, in the twentieth. Calling on recent work in feminist and gay musicology, he investigates themes such as subjectivity and identity in Schubert and Chopin alongside questions of the political economy of music and the composer's progressive marginalization from the centre of musical life. The book continues Chanan's rethink of the relation between music and society pursued in two previous studies published by Verso, Musica Practica and Repeated Takes.

Informazioni sull?autore: Michael Chanan is a filmmaker, writer and teacher. He has written books on various aspects of film and music, including Repeated Takes, The Dream that Kicks and The Cuban Image.

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Titolo: From Handel to Hendrix: The Composer in the ...
Casa editrice: Verso
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: As New
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