Lawrence Kramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Kramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Kramer |
| SIGNATURE | KRAMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0612-6347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of Being
Harmonies of the World
Framing the limits to growth: Narratives in the sustainable fashion industry
Music and the Forms of Life
The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening
Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening
Song as Paraphrase
Song" is an umbrella term covering a vast variety of practices, many with little in common. This essay asks what it would take to theorize song as a phenomenon rather than to theorize specific genres of song. How can we think about song-if we can-as a relationship of language and music in a purely potential mode, independent of the relationships between words and music typical of those genres? How can we understand the role of media in this frami…
Philosophizing Musically: Reconsidering Music and Ideas
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A Note: On Informal Thinking
Interpreting Music
This book is a comprehensive discussion on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of work, it fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning—even the very concept of music—while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. The book argues that music, far from being …
Musical Meaning and Human Values
Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad humanistic sense to the shaping of fundamental values. The volume examines the open and active circle between the va…
Musical Meaning and Human Values
Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad humanistic sense to the shaping of fundamental values. The volume examines the open and active circle between the va…
Ena kašlja, druga pleše: Freud, Strauss in sprevrženost sodobnega življenja
Navkljub znani ravnodušnosti do glasbe jo Freud včasih prav poznavalsko omenja. Ta sestavek napeljuje na misel, da se je freudovska podzavest deloma oblikovala po glasbi pozne romantike v povezavi z opisi ženskega poželenja. Freudov primer Dore in Richarda Straussa opera Saloma se stekata v findesièclovskem konceptu glasbene podzavesti
Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema
Grasping the Subject
Why Classical Music Still Matters
What can be done about the state of classical music?" asks this book. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. This book takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. Over seven chapters, the book affirms the value of classical music—defined as a body of nontheatrica…
Speaking Melody, Melodic Speech
Timely Meditations
Music, Historical Knowledge, and Critical Inquiry: Three Variations on The Ruins of Athens
Music, Metaphor and Metaphysics
Odradek Analysis: Reflections on Musical Ontology
Powers of Blackness: Africanist Discourse in Modern Concert Music
War, said Carl von Clausewitz ([1832] 1984, 87), is the continuation of politics by other means. My aim in this essay is to propose a pair of Clausewitzian theses about the encounter between a diversity of black American music--ragtime, blues, and jazz--and white modernist concert music in the United States and France, circa 1909-1931, with a later codicil from England. The encounter was both rich and strange, and it produced a large handful of n…
Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion'sThe Portrait of a Lady
Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues 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. Kramer draws on a b…
The Mysteries of Animation: History, Analysis and Musical Subjectivity
Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues 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. Kramer draws on a b…
Why Classical Music Still Matters
What can be done about the state of classical music?" asks this book. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. This book takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. Over seven chapters, the book affirms the value of classical music—defined as a body of nontheatrica…
Interpreting Music
This book is a comprehensive discussion on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of work, it fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning—even the very concept of music—while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. The book argues that music, far from being …
Odradek Analysis: Reflections on Musical Ontology
The Mysteries of Animation: History, Analysis and Musical Subjectivity
Powers of Blackness: Africanist Discourse in Modern Concert Music
The Shape of Post-Classical Music
"Schorske's Ring Cycle, Schoenberg's "Liebestod: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture . Carl Schorske
Gender and Sexuality in the Prelude: The Question of Book Seven
Text and music: Some new directions
Recent developments in text-music relationships may be studied in three new compositions commissioned by Dartmouth College. These works, by Christian Wolff, Susan Blaustein, and the author, present themselves as self-conscious critiques of traditional song. Dealing with overtly political and historical material, they redefine the song cycle as a public genre in dialogue with the private genre that evolved in the great 19th (and 20th) century Lied…
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900
Music as Cultural Practice 1800-1900
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society. In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in for…
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
Two. From the Other to the Abject: Music as Cultural Trope
Eight. Consuming the Exotic: Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe
Powers of Blackness: Africanist Discourse in Modern Concert Music
Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song
1. Interpretive dramaturgy and social drama: Schubert's Erster Verlust 2. Undisciplined song: scorings of the subject 3. Mermaid fancies: Schubert's trout and the wish to be a woman 4. The Ganymed complex: Schubert's songs and the homosexual imagination 5. Masochism and domesticity in Die schone Mullerin 6. Revenants: masculine thresholds in Schubert, James, and Freud
Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History
Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written book continues and deepens the trajectory of Kramer's thinking as it boldly argues 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. Kramer draws on a b…
The Mysteries of Animation: History, Analysis and Musical Subjectivity
Powers of Blackness: Africanist Discourse in Modern Concert Music
War, said Carl von Clausewitz ([1832] 1984, 87), is the continuation of politics by other means. My aim in this essay is to propose a pair of Clausewitzian theses about the encounter between a diversity of black American music--ragtime, blues, and jazz--and white modernist concert music in the United States and France, circa 1909-1931, with a later codicil from England. The encounter was both rich and strange, and it produced a large handful of n…
Recognizing Schubert: Musical Subjectivity, Cultural Change, and Jane Campion'sThe Portrait of a Lady
Music, Metaphor and Metaphysics
Odradek Analysis: Reflections on Musical Ontology
Speaking Melody, Melodic Speech
Timely Meditations
Music, Historical Knowledge, and Critical Inquiry: Three Variations on The Ruins of Athens
Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema
Grasping the Subject
Why Classical Music Still Matters
What can be done about the state of classical music?" asks this book. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. This book takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. Over seven chapters, the book affirms the value of classical music—defined as a body of nontheatrica…
Musical Meaning and Human Values
Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad humanistic sense to the shaping of fundamental values. The volume examines the open and active circle between the va…
Art (31 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (18 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (14 works) · Literature (13 works) · Visual arts (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Musical (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works)