Reading music
Subtitle: selected essays
By: by Susan McClary.
Series: Ashgate Contemporary thinkers on critical musicology series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: England
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754626725
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: part 1. Interpretation and polemics. Pitches, expression, ideology : an exercise in mediation (1983) ; The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach year (1987) ; Narrative agendas in "absolute" music : identity and difference in Brahms's third symphony (1993) ; Terminal prestige : the case of avant-garde music composition (1989); title: part 2. Gender and sexuality. A material girl in Bluebeard's castle (1991) ; Structures of identity and difference in Bizet's Carmen (1997) ; Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert's music (1994); title: part 3. Popular music. "Same as it ever was" : youth culture and music (1994) ; Living to tell : Madonna's resurrection of the fleshly (1990) ; Thinking blues (2000); title: part 4. Early music. The cultural work of the madrigal (2004) ; Cycles of repetition : chacona, ciaccona, chaconne, and the chaconne.