Philosophical And Cultural Theories Of Music

Author : Eduardo De La Fuente
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004184341
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music written by Eduardo De La Fuente and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together philosophers, sociologists, musicologists and students of culture who theorize music through cultural practices as diverse as opera and classical music, jazz and pop, avant-garde and DIY musical cultures, music festivals and isolated listening through the iPod, rock in urban heritage and the piano in East Asia.

Author : Eduardo de la Fuente
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004193405
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music written by Eduardo de la Fuente and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together philosophers, sociologists, musicologists and students of culture who theorize music through cultural practices as diverse as opera and classical music, jazz and pop, avant-garde and DIY musical cultures, music festivals and isolated listening through the iPod, rock in urban heritage and the piano in East Asia.

Author : John Shepherd
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745608648
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Cultural Theory written by John Shepherd and published by Polity. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Shepherd and Wicke make a bold and original contribution to the understanding of music as a form of human expression. They argue that music is fundamental to social life. Music is not merely a form of leisure or entertainment: it is central to the very formation and reproduction of human societies. The authors pursue this argument through a wide-ranging assessment of some of the major cultural theoretical contributions to understanding music. Theories of culture, linguistic theories, structuralist and post-structuralist theories and psychoanalytic theories of music are carefully explained and critically examined. The authors then develop their own account of music as a non-referential yet material form of human expression which embodies and conveys principles of symbolic structuring. They emphasize the human body as a principal site for the musical mediation of social and symbolic processes. Music and Cultural Theory establishes new links between musicology and cultural studies, showing how each discipline can inform and enrich the other. It will be recommended reading for students and professionals in musicology, media and communication studies, cultural studies and the sociology of culture.

Author : Andrew Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521107822
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Philosophy, and Modernity written by Andrew Bowie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern philosophers generally assume that music is a problem to which philosophy ought to offer an answer. Andrew Bowie's Music, Philosophy, and Modernity suggests, in contrast, that music might offer ways of responding to some central questions in modern philosophy. Bowie looks at key philosophical approaches to music ranging from Kant, through the German Romantics and Wagner, to Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Adorno. He uses music to re-examine many ideas about language, subjectivity, metaphysics, truth and ethics, and he suggests that music can show how the predominant images of language, communication, and meaning in contemporary philosophy may be lacking in essential ways. His book will be of interest to philosophers, musicologists, and all who are interested in the relation between music and philosophy.

Author : Wayne D. Bowman
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195394739
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education written by Wayne D. Bowman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from the profession's most exciting scholars from all over the world. Rather than relegating philosophical inquiry to moot questions and abstract situations, the contributors to this volume address everyday concerns faced by music educators everywhere. Emphasizing clarify, fairness, rigor, and utility above all, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education will challenge music educators all over the world to make their own decisions and ultimately contribute to the conversation themselves.

Author : Rūta Stanevičiūtė
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030144712
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Essence and Context written by Rūta Stanevičiūtė and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new approach to the intersections between music and philosophy. It features articles that rethink the concepts of musical work and performance from ontological and epistemological perspectives and discuss issues of performing practices that involve the performer’s and listener’s perceptions. In philosophy, the notion of essence has enjoyed a renaissance. However, in the humanities in general, it is still viewed with suspicion. This collection examines the ideas of essence and context as they apply to music. A common concern when thinking of music in terms of essence is the plurality of music. There is also the worry that thinking in terms of essence might be an overly conservative way of imposing fixity on something that evolves. Some contend that we must take into account the varying historical and cultural contexts of music, and that the idea of an essence of music is therefore a fantasy. This book puts forward an innovative approach that effectively addresses these concerns. It shows that it is, in fact, possible to find commonalities among the many kinds of music. The coverage combines philosophical and musicological approaches with bioethics, biology, linguistics, communication theory, phenomenology, and cognitive science. The respective chapters, written by leading musicologists and philosophers, reconsider the fundamental essentialist and contextualist approaches to music creation and experience in light of twenty-first century paradigm shifts in music philosophy.

Author : Wayne D. Bowman
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195112962
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Music written by Wayne D. Bowman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to diverse philosophical perspectives on the nature and value of music, ranging from the ancient Greeks to idealism to phenomenology to contemporary socio-cultural critiques. Designed to introduce the serious music student with no philosophical background to the vitality of music philosophical discourse, it explores a broad range of music philosophical terrain, showing the philsophers' reasons for holding what can seem to the non-philosopher like extraordinarily bizarre notions, while at the same time pointing out the philosophical shortcomings of what musicians often take for common-sense musical truths.

Author : Malcolm Budd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134882114
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and the Emotions written by Malcolm Budd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there any artistically important connection between music and emotions? Budd examines the theories of music that support and deny such a correction.

Author : Giacomo Fronzi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867497
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music written by Giacomo Fronzi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical universe of the 20th and 21st centuries is a force-field in which styles, instruments, personalities and stories can be found that are ascribable to conceptual frameworks that may differ greatly one from another. Such complexity cannot be traced back to single theories or all-encompassing interpretations, but may be tackled, philosophically, starting from certain characteristics. This book identifies nine such characteristics: namely, Extremes, Noise, Silence, Technology, Audience, Listening, Freedom, Disintegration, and New Media. Each of these permits us to open up unforeseen philosophical-cultural paths and interpret, in its multifarious variety, the developments of contemporary music, profoundly interwoven with the history of thought, culture and society.

Author : Janet Schmalfeldt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190656123
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Process of Becoming written by Janet Schmalfeldt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor Adorno and Carl Dahlhaus emerge as the guardians of a long-standing critical tradition in which Hegelian concepts have been brought to bear on the question of musical form. Janet Schmalfeldt's ground-breaking account of the development of this Beethoven-Hegelian tradition restores to the term "form" some of its philosophical associations in the early nineteenth century, when profound cultural changes were yielding new relationships between composers and their listeners, and when music itself-in particular, instrumental music-became a topic for renewed philosophical investigation. Precedents for Adorno's and Dahlhaus's concept of form as process arise in the Athenäum Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel and in the Encyclopaedia Logic of Hegel. The metaphor common to all these sources is the notion of becoming; it is the idea of form coming into being that this study explores in respect to music by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann. A critical assessment of Dahlhaus's preoccupation with the opening of Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata serves as the author's starting point for the translation of philosophical ideas into music-analytical terms-ones that encourage listening "both forward and backward," as Adorno has recommended. Thanks to the ever-growing familiarity of late eighteenth-century audiences with formal conventions, composers could increasingly trust that performers and listeners would be responsive to striking formal transformations. The author's analytic method strives to capture the dynamic, quasi-narrative nature of such transformations, rather than only their end results. This experiential approach to the perception of form invites listeners and especially performers to participate in the interpretation of processes by which, for example, a brooding introduction-like opening must inevitably become the essential main theme in Schubert's Sonata, Op. 42, or in which tremendous formal expansions in movements by Mendelssohn offer a dazzling opportunity for multiple retrospective reinterpretations. Above all, In the Process of Becoming proposes new ways of hearing beloved works of the romantic generation as representative of their striving for novel, intensely self-reflective modes of communication.