Good Music - What It Is and Who Gets to Decide Sheinbaum John JPaperback / softback
Good Music - What It Is and Who Gets to Decide Sheinbaum John JPaperback / softback Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly…
Specifikacia Good Music - What It Is and Who Gets to Decide Sheinbaum John JPaperback / softback
Good Music - What It Is and Who Gets to Decide Sheinbaum John JPaperback / softback
Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.In Good Music, John J. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music.
Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding.
Who Gets What and Why