Music and Ideology
Subtitle: Resisting the Aesthetic (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9789057012419
Subjects: Cultural studies; Theory of music & musicology; Philosophy And Esthetics Of Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; History & Criticism; History & Criticism - General; Music / General
First sentence: THE FUNCTION OF ART AND POLITICS IS to make people dream, to fulfill their desires (but not to allow their realization), to transform the world, to change life, to offer a stage on which desire (the director) plays out its fantasmatical theatrics.