| Conditions of Music 1984 Edition Contributor(s): Durant, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333372778 ISBN-13: 9780333372777 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 780 |
| Series: Language, Discourse, Society |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.76 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Music is performed, reproduced, and heard differently today as a result of twentieth-century technology. A new consideration of these changes is a practical and cultural necessity. In Conditions of Music, Alan Durant extends Deryck Cooke's Language of Music, placing the insights of Cooke into a much wider sociological and historical framework. Conditions of Music provides a basis for detailed commentary and criticism of music. Unlike literature and painting, around which illuminating critical techniques and theories have developed, little common ground exists for music criticism. The appraisal argument adopted here implies a major revision of accepted ways of thinking about contemporary directions of music. |