Deconstructive variations
Subtitle: music and reason in western society
By: Rose Rosengard Subotnik.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Music -- Social aspects; Musical criticism; Musical analysis
Other titles: Music and reason in western society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Whose Magic flute? : intimations of reality at the gates of the Enlightenment; title: How could Chopin's A-major prelude be deconstructed?; title: Toward a deconstruction of structural listening : a critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky; title: The closing of the American dream? : a musical perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and doing the right thing.