Music and Ideology
Subtitle: Resisting the Aesthetic (Critical Voices in Art, Theory & Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789057013218
Subjects: Cultural studies; Theory of music & musicology; General; Music; Music/Songbooks; Aesthetics; Instruction & Study - Theory; 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.