From the erotic to the demonic : on critical musicology

From the erotic to the demonic : on critical musicology /

This text should prove useful as a model for musicologists who want to take a postmodern approach to their inquiries. It demonstrates how different musical styles construct ideas of class, sexuality, and ethnic identity.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Scott, Derek B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects:
Music > Social aspects.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Style, Musical.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Sexuality, gender, and musical style. Erotic representation from Monteverdi to Mae West ; The sexual politics of Victorian musical aesthetics
  • Ideology and the popular. The Native American in popular music ; Incongruity and predictability in British dance band music of the 1920s and 1930s
  • The sacred and the profane. Lux in Tenebris : Bruckner and the dialectic of darkness and light ; Diabolus in musicus : Liszt and the demonic
  • Ideology and cultural otherness. Orientalism and musical style ; The impact of African-American music making on the European classical tradition in the 1920s.

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