Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
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Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History

Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History

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Lawrence Kramer (Author)  

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Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new resources for understanding music. In this accessible and eloquently written book, he argues boldly that humanistic, not just technical, meaning is a basic force in music history and an indispensable factor in how, where, and when music is heard. He demonstrates that thinking about music can become a vital means of thinking about general questions of meaning, subjectivity, and value. First published in 2001, Musical Meaning anticipates many of the musicological topics of today, including race, performance, embodiment, and media. In addition, Kramer explores music itself as a source of understanding via his composition Revenants for piano, revised for this edition and available on the UC Press website. 18 music examples, 4 b-w photographs
Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, which won the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism, and most recently, The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening.
  • Contributor: Lawrence Kramer
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520382978
  • Number of Pages: 352
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x15mm
  • Packaged Weight: 499
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2021-07-30
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, which won the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism, and most recently, The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening.

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