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Why Classical Music Still Matters Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Kramer, Lawrence
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- Title Why Classical Music Still Matters
- Author Kramer, Lawrence
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2009-01-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0520258037
- ISBN 9780520258037 / 0520258037
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.22 x 5.58 x 0.6 in (20.88 x 14.17 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Music - Philosophy and aesthetics
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.68
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From the rear cover
"Wow. Kramer succeeds at what is a fantastically difficult task: to seduce readers into a powerful engagement with classical music by portraying in words its complex entanglements with fundamental human drives and social needs. Ranging from J.S. Bach to John Adams, the author shows again and again how classical music participates in the exploration of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy. Matching some of the most famous descriptive musical prose of the modern era, Kramer uses his extraordinary command of language to treat the material in a manner that could not be more original and stimulating."--Robert Fink, author of Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice