Julian Johnson: Who Needs Classical Music?

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During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson challenges these assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgments. The author maintains that music is more than just "a matter of taste": while some music provides entertainment, or serves as background noise, other music claims to function as art. This book considers the value of classical music in contemporary society, arguing that it remains distinctive because it works in quite different ways to most of the other music that surrounds us.

This intellectually sophisticated yet accessible book offers a new and balanced defense of the specific values of classical music in contemporary culture. The paperback edition includes a new preface from the author, re-contextualizing the debate ten years out. Who Needs Classical Music? will stimulate readers to reflect on their own investment (or lack of it) in music and art of all kinds.

Über den Autor

Professor of Music, Royal Holloway University of London, author of Webern and the Transformation of Nature, (Cambridge, 2000), Who Needs Classical Music (OUP, 2002), and Mahler's Voices (OUP, 2009), and composer. Winner, Dent Medal (2005) from the Royal Music Association.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1.: Musical Values

Chapter 2.: Uses and Abuses

Chapter 3.: Music as Art

Chapter 4.: Understanding Music

Chapter 5.: The Old, the New, and the Contemporary

Chapter 6.: Cultural Choices

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199755424
ISBN-10:	0199755426
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Johnson, Julian
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Julian Johnson
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2011
Gewicht:	0,251 kg