| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 513 pages) : illustrations, music |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Time, narrative, and memory. Narrative and narrativity in music ; Postmodernism, narrativity, and the art of memory ; Resituating the spectral revolution : French antecedents -- Self-fashioning. Deconstructing d'Indy, or the problem of a composer's reputation ; New music as confrontation : the musical sources of Cocteau's identity ; Inventing a tradition : John Cage's "Composition in retrospect" -- Identity and nation. Pelléas and power : forces behind the reception of Debussy's opera ; The ironies of gender, or virility and politics in the music of Augusta Holmès ; Race, orientalism, and distinction in the wake of the "Yellow peril" -- Patrons and patronage. Countess Greffulhe as entrepreneur : negotiating class, gender, and nation ; The political economy of composition in the American university, 1965-1985 -- The everyday life of the past. Concert programs and their narratives as emblems of ideology ; Material culture and postmodern positivism : rethinking the "popular" in late nineteenth-century French music. |
| Summary |
List of Illustrations. List of Musical Examples. Introduction. I. Time, Narrative, and Memory. 1. Narrative and Narrativity in Music. 2. Postmodernism, Narrativity, and the Art of Memory. 3. Resituating the Spectral Revolution: French Antecedents. II. Self-Fashioning. 4. Deconstructing d'Indy, or the Problem of a Composer's Reputation. 5. New Music as Confrontation: the Musical Sources of Cocteau's Identity. 6. Inventing a tradition: John Cage's Composition in Retrospect. III. Identity and Nation. 7. Pelleas and Power: Forces behind the Reception of Debussy's Opera. 8. The Ironies of Gender, o. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pasler, Jann. Writing through music. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780195324891 0195324897 (DLC) 2006037220 (OCoLC)76064728 |
| ISBN |
9780198043553 (electronic book) |
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0198043554 (electronic book) |
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9780195324891 (Cloth) |
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0195324897 (Cloth) |
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1281165379 |
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9781281165374 |
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