Classical music and postmodern knowledge
By: Lawrence Kramer.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Postmodernism
Notes: "First paperback printing 1996"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prospects : postmodernism and musicology --; title: From the other to the abject : music as cultural trope --; title: Music and representation : in the beginning with Haydn's Creation --; title: Musical narratology : a theoretical outline --; title: Felix culpa : Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the social force of musical expression --; title: The Lied as cultural practice : tutelage, gender, and desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe songs --; title: Cultural politics and musical form : the case of Charles Ives --; title: Consuming the exotic : Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe --; title: Epilogue à 4 : Autonomy, Elvis, Cinders, fingering Bach --; title: Mendelssohn : three Goethe songs.