Music and Marx
Subtitle: ideas, practice, politics
By: edited by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
Contributors: Marx, Karl, 1818-1883; Qureshi, Regula
Series: Critical and cultural musicology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Music -- Social aspects; Socialism and music
Genres: Social aspects
Description: "Music and Marx represents the first time a distinctly diverse set of Marxist-directed approaches to the study of music can be found in a single volume. Widely varied in their topics, each chapter illuminates from its own vantage point how a Marxist treatment of culture informs - and is informed by - an assessment of musical production and reception.

With ten all new essays by accomplished musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and music theorists, and an erudite introduction by editor Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, the book broaches such subjects as song structure and modernity, the commodification of a hip-hop aesthetic, the revolutionary music of Central America, public concerts in seventeenth- and eigthteenth-century London, Soviet-sponsored music, world music, and the state of music scholarship today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index