| Description |
xvii, 297 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-289) and index. |
| Contents |
Prospects: postmodernism and musicology -- From the other to the abject: music as cultural trope -- Music and representation: in the beginning with Haydn's Creation -- Musical narratology: a theoretical outline -- Felix culpa: Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the social force of musical expression -- The Lied as cultural practice: tutelage, gender, and desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe songs -- Cultural politics and musical form: the case of Charles Ives -- Consuming the exotic: Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe -- Epilogue à 4: autonomy, Elvis, cinders, fingering Bach -- Appendix: Mendelssohn: three Goethe songs. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Postmodernism.
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Postmodernism. |
| ISBN |
0520088204 alkaline paper |
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