Music and Society. The politics of composition, performance and recepcion

This provocative volume of essay is now available in paperback. The contributors to this volume -musicologist, sociologist, cultural theorist -all challenge the view that music ocuppies an auntonomous aesthetic sphere.
Recently, socially and polically grounded enterprises such as feminism, semiotic and deconstruction have effected a major transformation in the ways in which the arts and humanities are studied, leading in turn to a systematic investigation of the implicit assumptions underlying the critical methods of the last two hundred years. Influenced by these approaches, the writers here question a prevailing ideology that insists there is a division between music and society and examine the ways in wich the two do in fact interact and mediate one another within and across socio-cultural boundaries.

CONTENIDO

- Introduction
-Acknowledgments
- Foreword: The ideoloy of autonomous art
- The blasphemy of talking politics
during Bach Year
- Music, domestic life and cultural chauvinism: images of British subjects at home in India
- On grounding Chopin
- Towards an aesthetic of popular music
- Music and male hegemony
- The sound of music in the era of its electronic reproducibility
- Index