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The Sociology of Wind Bands
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Despite the musical and social roles they play in many parts of the world, wind bands have not attracted much interest from sociologists. The Sociology of Wind Bands provides a sociological account of this musical universe. Based on a qualitative and quantitative survey conducted in north-eastern France, the authors present a vivid description of the... more...
Why Classical Music Still Matters
University of California Press 2007; US$ 19.96?What can be done about the state of classical music?? Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today?s media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. Why Classical... more...
Sound Ideas
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 70.50Aden Evens provides an acute consideration of how music becomes sensible, advancing original variations on the themes of creativity and habit, analog and digital technologies, and improvisation and repetition. Sound Ideas reinvents the philosophy of music in a way that encompasses traditional aspects of musicology, avant-garde explorations of music's... more...
Developing Variations
University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 90.00Combines into a cohesive statement the authors pathbreaking critical essays on Western music. more...
Music, Philosophy, and Modernity
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 40.00Andrew Bowie uses music to question many current ideas about language, meaning and philosophy. more...
The Musical Work
Liverpool University Press 2000; US$ 70.00Like literature and art, music has works. But not every piece of music is called a work, and not every musical performance is made up of works. The complexities of this situation are explored in these essays, which examine a broad swathe of western music. From plainsong to the symphony, from Duke Ellington to the Beatles, this is at root... more...
Who Needs Classical Music?
Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 16.99Introduction 1. Musical Values 2. Uses and Abuses 3. Music as Art 4. Understanding Music 5. The Old, the New, and the Contemporary 6. Cultural Choices Bibliography Index more...
Time and the Warm Body
BRILL 2007; US$ 86.00Deals with time and with music, and the link between the two. This study suggests that music is a modeling of the way we construct time. more...
The Contradictions of Jazz
Scarecrow Press 2008; US$ 54.99The Contradictions of Jazz examines four pairs of opposites in jazz-freedom and responsibility, creativity and tradition, individualism and interconnectedness, and assertion and openness-and explores their position and presence in jazz to create a humanistic and existential view of the genre. more...
Musik in der deutschen Philosophie
J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2003; US$ 38.52Hauptbeschreibung Dieser Band gibt einen orientierenden Überblick über einen bisher vernachlässigten Forschungsgegenstand. Er konzentriert sich auf die deutsche Philosophie, deren Tradition mit musikphilosophischer Reflexion besonders eng verknüpft ist; u.a. Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Heidegger, Gadamer und Adorno. Die Kapitel sind... more...









