Writing through music essays on music, culture, and politics / Jann Pasler ; with a foreword by George Lewis.

Author/creator Pasler, Jann
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 513 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
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Contents Time, narrative, and memory. Narrative and narrativity in music ; Postmodernism, narrativity, and the art of memory ; Resituating the spectral revolution : French antecedents -- Self-fashioning. Deconstructing d'Indy, or the problem of a composer's reputation ; New music as confrontation : the musical sources of Cocteau's identity ; Inventing a tradition : John Cage's "Composition in retrospect" -- Identity and nation. Pelléas and power : forces behind the reception of Debussy's opera ; The ironies of gender, or virility and politics in the music of Augusta Holmès ; Race, orientalism, and distinction in the wake of the "Yellow peril" -- Patrons and patronage. Countess Greffulhe as entrepreneur : negotiating class, gender, and nation ; The political economy of composition in the American university, 1965-1985 -- The everyday life of the past. Concert programs and their narratives as emblems of ideology ; Material culture and postmodern positivism : rethinking the "popular" in late nineteenth-century French music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2006037220
ISBN9780195324891
ISBN0195324897

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