Conventional Wisdom
The Content of Musical Form
Seiten
2001
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-23208-2 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-23208-2 (ISBN)
Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, this book offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. It tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them.
With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, "Conventional Wisdom" offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles and moves easily across a broad range of repertoires - the blues, eighteenth-century tonal music, late Beethoven, and rap. As one of the most influential trailblazers in contemporary musical understanding, McClary once again moves beyond the borders of the 'purely musical' into the larger world of history and society, and beyond the idea of a socially stratified core canon toward a musical pluralism. Those who know McClary only as a feminist writer will discover her many other sides, but not at the expense of gender issues, which are smoothly integrated into the general argument.
In considering the need for a different way of telling the story of Western music, "Conventional Wisdom" bravely tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them.
With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, "Conventional Wisdom" offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles and moves easily across a broad range of repertoires - the blues, eighteenth-century tonal music, late Beethoven, and rap. As one of the most influential trailblazers in contemporary musical understanding, McClary once again moves beyond the borders of the 'purely musical' into the larger world of history and society, and beyond the idea of a socially stratified core canon toward a musical pluralism. Those who know McClary only as a feminist writer will discover her many other sides, but not at the expense of gender issues, which are smoothly integrated into the general argument.
In considering the need for a different way of telling the story of Western music, "Conventional Wisdom" bravely tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them.
Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (1991) and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).
Preface
1. Turtles All the Way Down (On the "Purely Musical")
2. Thinking Blues
3· What Was Tonality?
4· The Refuge of Counterconvention
5· Reveling in the Rubble: The Postmodern Condition
Notes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.9.2001 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Ernest Bloch Lectures ; 12 |
Zusatzinfo | 16 music examples |
Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 363 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-23208-9 / 0520232089 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-23208-2 / 9780520232082 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Grundbegriffe, Harmonik, Formen, Instrumente
Buch | Softcover (2021)
Philipp Reclam (Verlag)
7,80 €
Jazz als Gegenkultur im westlichen Nachkriegsdeutschland
Buch | Hardcover (2024)
edition text + kritik (Verlag)
42,00 €
Professional Music, Musikarbeitsbuch
Buch | Softcover (2022)
Leu-Vlg Wolfgang Leupelt (Verlag)
34,00 €