Music and the politics of culture
By: edited by Christopher Norris.
Contributors: Norris, Christopher, 1947-
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism; Culture
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christopher Norris; title: The heroism of Henry Purcell: music and politics in Restoration England / Wilfrid Mellers; title: 'The Duc d'Elgar': making a composer gentleman / Meirion Hughes; title: On shearing the black sheep in spring: the repatriation of Frederick Delius / Robert Stradling; title: Holst and Vaughan Williams: radical pastoral / Paul Harrington; title: Robert Simpson's Tenth quartet: politics, pacifism and the language of tonality / Lionel Pike; title: Behold the sun: the politics of musical production / Nicholas Williams; title: Ideology and form: Shostakovich east and west / Malcolm Barry; title: Music as immanent critique: stasis and development in the music of Ligeti / Alastair Williams; title: Why minimalism now? / Claire Polin; title: The rehabilitation of the vernacular / David Matthews; title: Improvisation in the political economy of music / Alan Durant; title: The classical and the popular: musical form and social context / Ken Hirschkop; title: Utopian deconstruction: Ernst Bloch, Paul de Man and the politics of music / Christopher Norris; title: Notes on contributors.