Conventional Wisdom

The Content of Musical Form

By:

Susan McClary

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Ernest Bloch Lectures

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Re-examining the concept of musical convention, this text explores the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, and offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles and moves easily across a broad range of repertoires - the blues, 18th-century tonal music, late Beethoven, and rap. McClary moves beyond the borders of the "purely musical" into the larger world of history and society, and beyond the idea of a socially stratified core canon toward a musical pluralism.

Author Biography:

Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (1991) and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).

Release date Australia

September 27th, 2001

Author

Susan McClary

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

16 music examples

Pages

219

Series

Ernest Bloch Lectures

Dimensions

140x210x15

ISBN-13

9780520232082

Product ID

1906884

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