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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Derek B Scott |
| ISBN: | 019515195X 9780195151954 0195151968 9780195151961 |
| OCLC Number: | 49225369 |
| Description: | 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Sexuality, gender, and musical style. Erotic representation from Monteverdi to Mae West ; The sexual politics of Victorian musical aesthetics -- Ideology and the popular. The Native American in popular music ; Incongruity and predictability in British dance band music of the 1920s and 1930s -- The sacred and the profane. Lux in Tenebris : Bruckner and the dialectic of darkness and light ; Diabolus in musicus : Liszt and the demonic -- Ideology and cultural otherness. Orientalism and musical style ; The impact of African-American music making on the European classical tradition in the 1920s. |
| Responsibility: | Derek B. Scott. |
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<br>"One of Scott's most noble achievements in this book is the recuperation of musical repertories that have been ignored or marginalized, perhaps suppressed by ideological forces such as the canon. In covering such a wide range of different musics and raising some fundamental issues about music and its interpretation, Derek Scott makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the interrelationships between style and ideology and, through his projection of a critical musicology, provides a timely, stimulating, and thought-provoking response to the endless discourse surrounding music and musicology." Music and Letters<p><br>"Scott is committed to social semiotics advanced by Richard Leppert, Susan McClary, and Lawrence Kramer and puts forth a series of exemplary essays articulated in a rich, engaging, and provocative interdisciplinary style. ... It sifts through a broad panoramic musical repertory in a refreshingly involving style, making this book a strong addition to musicology as well as the interdisciplinary fields of history, sociology, women's studies, and political science. It opens new doors to the examination of important topics concerning race, gender, and sexuality, and it is therefore highly recommended."--Notes<p><br> Read more...
