
A Different Story
Aesthetics and the History of Western Music
Olle K. Edstrum(Author)
Pendragon Press
Published on 10. May 2002
Book
Hardback
309 pages
978-1-57647-123-4 (ISBN)
Description
Wide-ranging across time and space, written in jargon-free, plain language, Aesthetics and the History of Western Music, simply put, teaches. The spectrum of original sources is impressively broad, and all of the principal 'usual suspects' are included. But perhaps more important, Olle Edström likewise incorporates the work of writers outside the mainstream of established aesthetics discourse; and the same holds for the secondary sources that he cites and invariably reads critically. Much of the value of this book develops from Edström's concern to move aesthetics from an exercise of language to one of musical practices, and to include not only the music of high art but that of the popular as well, both in past times and in our own. His achievement is noteworthy. Richard Leppert (University of Minnesota).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57647-123-4 (9781576471234)
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