Music as Social Text

by John Shepherd, John Shepherd, John Shepherd

he study of music in its social context has expanded rapidly over the last fifteen years, yet little of this work discusses the music itself: the processes, textures and structures of sound which so powerfully affect us as individuals. Music as Social Text begins by analysing the forces which have made this kind of discussion difficult within the intellectual tradition of the western world. The book argues that a society in which reality is grasped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745608264
• ISBN13: 9780745608266
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.