Why Classical Music Still Matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Kramer (0000-0002-0612-6347, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 242 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Why classical music still matters (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520250826.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4302030864 |
| Open Library | OL22245530M |
| ISBN | 9780520250826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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 nontheatrical music produced since the eighteenth century with the single aim of being listened to—by revealing what its values are: the specific beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has supported in the past and which can support it in the future. The book also clears the air of old prejudices. Unlike other defenses by apologists, whose defense of the music often depends on arguments about the corrupting influence of popular culture, this book admits that classical music needs a broader, more up-to-date rationale. It succeeds in engaging the reader by putting into words music's complex relationship with individual human drives and larger social needs. The book explores the nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy
Aesthetics · Art · Classical music · Demise · Epistemology · Harmonization · Humanity · Literature · Musical · Political science · Popular music · Skepticism · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Music · Music, philosophy and aesthetics · Musical analysis · Philosophy and aesthetics · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2021 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |