Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture (Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226521435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967.. Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture
Meyer is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. . Leonard B
The Postlude, written for this edition, looks back at the predictions made more than twenty-five years ago and speculates about what the coming decades may hold. The book is concerned with the aesthetics of music and with the relationships between music (and the other arts), ideology, and history--especially as these have shaped contemporary culture. . From the Back Cover 'In Music, the Arts, and Ideas, ' Leonard B. Meyer uses music as a vantage point to discover patters in the perplexing, fragmented world of twentieth-century culture
The most important book on Music and Politics that you have NEVER read. Most books in philosophy or in the social sciences are most engaging when the author describes the problem he's examining in the book (literally the descriptive parts). This can be abbreviated in the preface or it can last through the entire volume. I often lose interest in books where the describing the problem is just a preface to getting to the prescriptive/thou shalt/here's my solution/if only someone listened to me etc. You get the idea. The best books are those where the author is so ingenious in his understanding of the problem or description of the facts that surround the