Reading Music

Selected Essays

• Author(s): Susan McClary,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 376
• ISBN_10: 135155221X
  ISBN_13: 9781351552219
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / Genres & Styles / General ,

Description:... 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.