Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value

Name: Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value
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ISBN: 9780195146813

ISBN-10: 0195146816

ISBN-13: 9780195146813

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julian Johnson

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During the last several decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between 'high' and 'low' art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and 'Blue Suede Shoes' are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson challenges these dominant assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgements. The author maintains that music is more than just 'a matter of taste': while some music provides entertainment, or serves as background noise, other music functions as art. This book considers the value of classical music in contemporary society, arguing that it remains distinctive because it works in quite different ways than most of the…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/28/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction



Musical Values



Uses and Abuses



Music As Art



Understanding Music



The Old, the New, and the Contemporary



Cultural Choices


Bibliography


Index