Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900

by Lawrence Kramer

Book Overview

In Music as Cultural Practice , Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society. In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520068572
• ISBN13: 9780520068575
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"