Music, Politics, and the Academy

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-520-20116-3
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Advocates of "new musicology" claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. Pieter C. van den Toorn challenges those claims, asking why cultural, sociopolitical, or gender-studies approaches to music should be deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact. Why should music analysis be thought incapable of serving larger aesthetic ends?

Van den Toorn confronts Susan McClary, Leo Treitler, and Joseph Kerman in particular, arguing that hands-on music analysis can penetrate the complexity of music and speak to our experience of it. He criticizes new musicologists for retreating from issues of musical immediacy by focusing on cultural issues. In later chapters van den Toorn defends Schenkerian methods and demonstrates the usefulness of technical analysis in the appreciation of Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toorn, Pieter C. van den

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Feminism, Politics, and the Ninth

2. In Defense of Music Theory and Analysis

3- Politics Ho!

4· Schenker and His Critics

5. The Ninth and Beyond

6. Neoclassicism Revised

7. A Case in Point:Context and Analytical Method in Stravinsky

Epilogue

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pieter C. van den Toorn is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring (California, 1987) and The Music of Igor Stravinsky (1983).