The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays write by Richard Taruskin. This book was released on 2010-11-11. The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.
Text and Act
Text and Act - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Text and Act write by Richard Taruskin. This book was released on 1995-09-07. Text and Act available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from reviving ancient traditions, in fact represents the only truly modern style of performance being offered today. He goes on to contend that the movement is therefore far more valuable and even authentic than the historical verisimilitude for which it ostensibly strives could ever be. These essays cast fresh light on many aspects of contemporary music-making and music-thinking, mixing lighthearted debunking with impassioned argumentation. Taruskin ranges from theoretical speculation to practical criticism, and covers a repertory spanning from Bach to Stravinsky. Including a newly written introduction, Text and Act collects the very best of one of our most incisive musical thinkers.
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Music and Victorian Liberalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Victorian Liberalism write by Sarah Collins. This book was released on 2019-06-06. Music and Victorian Liberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem
Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem write by Robert Mayhew. This book was released on 2005. Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem investigates the importance of the ego and freedom, and the individual against the state. Editor Robert Mayhew has collected a variety of essays dealing with such topics including: the history behind the novella's creation, publication, and reception; its connection to other anti-utopian novels; and, the significance of ego and freedom, which it portrays and defends. This book is important to philosophers as well as readers looking to gain a better understanding of Ayn Rand and Anthem.
Black Utopias
Black Utopias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Utopias write by Jayna Brown. This book was released on 2021-01-11. Black Utopias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.
