Reading Music: Selected Essays
- Author: McClary, Susan
Reading Music: Selected Essays
- Author: McClary, Susan
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This outstanding collection of Susan McClary's work exemplifies her contribution to a bridging of the gap between historical context, culture and musical practice. The selection includes essays which have had a major impact on the field and others which are less known and reproduced here from hard-to-find sources. The volume is divided into four parts: Interpretation and Polemics, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Music, and Early Music. Each of the essays treats music as cultural text and has a strong interdisciplinary appeal. Together with the autobiographical introduction they will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the life and times of a renegade musicologist.
Contents
- Contents: Introduction: the life and times of a renegade musicologist
- Bibliography
- Part I Interpretation and Polemics: Pitches, expression, ideology: an exercise in mediation
- The blasphemy of talking politics during Bach Year
- Narrative agendas in 'absolute' music: identity and difference in Brahms's 3rd symphony
- Terminal prestige: the case of avant-garde music composition. Part II Gender and Sexuality: A material girl in Bluebeard's castle
- Stuctures of identity and difference in Bizet's Carmen
- Constructions of subjectivity in Schubert's music. Part III Popular Music: 'Same as it ever was': youth culture and music
- Living to tell: Madonna's resurrection of the fleshly
- Thinking blues. Part IV Early Music: The cultural work of the madrigal
- Cycles of Repetition: Chacona, Ciaccona, Chaconne, and the Chaconne
- Index.
