Hermeneutics and music criticism
By: Roger W. H. Savage.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780415998598; 9780203875155
Subjects: Musical criticism; Musicology; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: "Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings of music's transformative power. The engagement with critical musicologists and philosophers, including Adorno, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, provides a nuanced analysis of the crucial issues affecting the theory and practice of music criticism. By challenging musical hermeneutics' deployment as a means of deciphering social values and meanings, Hermeneutics and Music Criticism offers an answer to the long-standing question of how music's expression of moods and feelings affects us and our relation to the world."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetics, hermeneutics, criticism; title: Social Werktreue and the subjectivization of aesthetics; title: From musikē to metaphysics; title: Formalist aesthetics and musical hermeneutics; title: Deconstructing the disciplinary divide; title: The question of metaphor; title: Mimesis and the hermeneutics of music; title: Political critique and the politics of music criticism; title: Toward a hermeneutics of music criticism.