Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices

by Richard Taruskin

Book Overview

Richard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of music studies, including historiography and criticism, representation and aesthetics, musical and professional politics, and the sociology of taste. Cursed Questions, invoking a famous catchphrase from Russian intellectual history, grapples with questions that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520344294
• ISBN13: 9780520344297
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"