| Author | : Richard Leppert |
| File Size | : 54,6 Mb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 15 June 1989 |
| ISBN | : 0521379776 |
| Pages | : 226 pages |
Music and Society by Richard Leppert Book PDF Summary
This provocative volume of essays is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume - musicologists, sociologists, cultural theorists - all challenge the view that music occupies an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Recently, socially and politically grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotics and deconstruction have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts and humanities are studied, leading in turn to a systematic investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that insists there is a division between music and society and examine the ways in which the two do in fact interact and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.