Cursed Questions
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Cursed Questions

On Music and Its Social Practices

  1. 462 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cursed Questions

On Music and Its Social Practices

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About This Book

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 are never finally answered but never go away. The writings gathered here form an intellectual biography that showcases the characteristic wit, provocation, and erudition that readers have come to expect from Taruskin, making it an essential volume for anyone interested in music, politics, and the arts.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520975453
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Cursed Questions
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The History of What?
  9. 2. Did Somebody Say Censorship?
  10. 3. Haydn and the Enlightenment?
  11. 4. Is There a Baby in the Bathwater? On aesthetic autonomy
  12. 5. Shall We Change the Subject? A Music Historian Reflects
  13. 6. “Alte Musik” or “Early Music”? On pseudohistory
  14. 7. Nicht blutbefleckt?
  15. 8. What Else? On musical representation
  16. 9. Unanalyzable, Is It?
  17. 10. Essence or Context? On musical ontology
  18. 11. But Aren’t They All Invented? On tradition
  19. 12. Which Way Is Up? On the sociology of taste
  20. 13. A Walking Translation? On musicology east and west
  21. Index