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Author Sheinbaum, John J., author.

Title Good music : what it is and who gets to decide / John J. Sheinbaum.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
©2019

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3880 .S545 2019    Available  
Description xiii, 289 pages : music ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
Contents Introduction : Good : what values do we bring to music? -- Serious : the cultural work of classical music and the trap of musical sound -- Unified : Beethoven, the Beatles, and the imperfect ideology of the masterpiece -- Deep : classical values and musical color in Mahler's symphonies -- Authentic : progressive rock and the inversion of musical values -- Heroic : "classic" jazz and musical dialogues -- Original : Handel historiography and the horizontal remix -- Connected : what's at stake in how we love the music we love?
Summary "Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of 'good' music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately"-- Page [4] of cover.
Subject Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Popular music and art music.
Popular music and art music.
ISBN 9780226593241 (hardcover alkaline paper)
022659324X (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780226593388 (paperback alkaline paper)
022659338X (paperback alkaline paper)
9780226593418 (electronic book)