Musical Meaning

Toward a Critical History

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Lawrence Kramer

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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.

Author 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.

Release date NZ

June 22nd, 2021

Author

Lawrence Kramer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

18 music examples, 4 b-w photographs

Pages

352

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780520382978

Product ID

33918359

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