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ISBN10: 1859847064, ISBN13: 9781859847060, [publisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom, London] Softcover In this book, a continuation of Michael Chanan's investigation of the relation between music and society, the author examines the composer in the light of Jurgen Habermas's study of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the emergence of criticism and the development of autonomous music, Chanan examines the fate of the composer through successive incarnations, from Handel, Bach and Mozart in the eighteenth century by way of Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Mahler and Debussy in the nineteenth, to Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Gershwin, Weill, Ellington, Cage and Boulez in the twentieth. Drawing upon recent work in feminist and gay musicology, the book ranges over themes such as subjectivity and identity in Schubert and Chopin, the ascendancy of the Romantic personality, the lure of the exotic in Milhaud's work, and the political economy of music. A detailed history of the idea of the composer as a public figure, Chanan's book charts both the dramatic change in the listening audience and, simultaneously, the composer's progressive marginalization from the centre of musical life. "It is undoubtedly true, as the music critic Hans Keller used to observe, that more people nowadays hear a single broadcast of a new work by an avant-garde composer than would have heard all ...
ISBN10: 1859847064, ISBN13: 9781859847060, [publisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom, London] Softcover In this book, a continuation of Michael Chanan's investigation of the relation between music and society, the author examines the composer in the light of Jurgen Habermas's study of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the emergence of criticism and the development of autonomous music, Chanan examines the fate of the composer through successive incarnations, from Handel, Bach and Mozart in the eighteenth century by way of Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner, Mahler and Debussy in the nineteenth, to Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Gershwin, Weill, Ellington, Cage and Boulez in the twentieth. Drawing upon recent work in feminist and gay musicology, the book ranges over themes such as subjectivity and identity in Schubert and Chopin, the ascendancy of the Romantic personality, the lure of the exotic in Milhaud's work, and the political economy of music. A detailed history of the idea of the composer as a public figure, Chanan's book charts both the dramatic change in the listening audience and, simultaneously, the composer's progressive marginalization from the centre of musical life. "It is undoubtedly true, as the music critic Hans Keller used to observe, that more people nowadays hear a single broadcast of a new work by an avant-garde composer than would have heard all ...
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Verso Books. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Verso Books ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [GB]
Verso Books. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Verso Books ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [US]
Verso Books. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Verso Books ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [US]
London UK: Verso. Fresh tight strong clean bright NEW Jacket Boards Text. Small spot jacket spine. No other markings. . As New. Hardcover. Date: 1999. 1999. Verso ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [US]
Verso. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 1859847064 . 9.21 X 6.14 X 1.26 inches; 352 pages . 1999. Verso ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [US]
London and New York: Verso, Date: 1999 The dust jacket is covered in clear plastic. 342 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1999. Verso ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [AU]
London: Verso, Date: 1999. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Book and dj are fine. Inscribed by the Author on the title page.. 1999. Verso ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [US]
Verso, Date: 1999-12-17. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1999. Verso ISBN 1859847064 9781859847060 [US]
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