Title: Musical concerns :
Authors: Levinson, Jerrold,
Date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: 173 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: This volume presents a new collection of essays, all of them dealing with music, by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. It follows in the line of Levinson's earlier collections, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1996), and Contemplating Art (2006), and is representative of the most stimulating work being done under the rubric of analytic aesthetics. The essays, which are wide-ranging, should appeal to aestheticians, philosophers, musicologists, music theorists, music critics and music lovers of all kinds. Three of the twelve essays comprising the volume have not previously been published, and in somewhat of a departure for Levinson, four of the essays focus on music in the jazz tradition [Publisher description]
Contents: Philosophy and music -- The aesthetic appreciation of music -- Concatenationism, architectonicism, and the appreciation of music -- Indication, abstraction, and individuation -- Musical beauty -- Values of music -- Shame in general and shame in music -- Jazz vocal interpretation : a philosophical analysis -- Popular song as moral microcosm : life lesssons from jazz standards -- The expressive specificity of jazz -- Instrumentation and improvisation -- What is a temporal art? / with Philip Alperson.
Subject headings (LCSH): Jazz--Philosophy and aesthetics; Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.