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9780754626725

Reading Music: Selected Essays

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    9780754626725

  • ISBN10:

    0754626725

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-11-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This outstanding collection of Susan McClary's work exemplifies her contribution to a bridging of the gap between historical context, culture and musical practice. Each of the essays treats music as cultural text and has a strong interdisciplinary appeal. Together with the autobiographical introduction they provide essential reading for anyone interested in the life and times of a renegade musicologist.

Author Biography

Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the life and times of a renegade musicologist
Bibliography
Interpretation and Polemics
Pitches, expression, ideology: an exercise in mediation
The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach Year
Narrative agendas in 'absolute' music: identity and difference in Brahms's 3rd symphony
Terminal prestige: the case of avant-garde music composition
Gender and Sexuality
A material girl in Bluebeard's castle
Stuctures of identity and difference in Bizet's Carmen
Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert's music
Popular Music
'Same as it ever was': youth culture and music
Living to tell
Madonna's resurrection of the fleshly
Thinking blues
Early Music
The cultural work of the madrigal
Cycles of Repetition: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne
Index
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