
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
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Kramer draws out the musical implications of contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural Practice, he regards music not only as an object that invites aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners.
In language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music-the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Prospects
Postmodernism and Musicology
2. From the Other to the Abject
Music as Cultural Trope
3. Music and Representation
In the Beginning with Haydn's Creation
4. Musical Narratology
A Theoretical Outline
5. Felix Culpa
Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Social Force of Musical Expression
6. The Lied as Cultural Practice
Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs
7. Cultural Politics and Musical Form
The Case of Charles Ives
8. Consuming the Exotic
Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe
Epilogue
Autonomy, Elvis, Cinders, Fingering Bach
Appendix: Mendelssohn: Three Goethe Songs
Notes
Index
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