Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music (Social and Critical Theory, 8)

Music Is A Ubiquitous And Hard To Grasp Cultural Form. It Is Semiotically And Aesthetically Open-ended; Yet Even A 'non-musical' Person Is Able To Follow The Basics Of Rhythmic Structure And Flow. Its Presence In Social And Cultural Life Is Further Complicated By Its Multiple Forms Of Existence-- As Both 'live' And 'technologically Mediated', As Self-referential Language And As Accompaniment To Text, Dance And Other Cultural Expressions. This Collection Brings Together Philosophers, Sociologists, Musicologists And Students Of Culture Who Theorize The Multiple Roles Of Music Through Cultural Practices As Diverse As Opera And Classical Music, Jazz And Pop, Avant-garde And Diy Musical Cultures, Music Festivals And Isolated Listening Through The Ipod, Rock In Urban Heritage And The Piano In Contemporary Asian Societies [publisher Description] Philosophical And Cultural Theories Of Music / Eduardo De La Fuente And Peter Murphy -- Modern Hermeneutics And The Presentation Of Opera / Agnes Heller -- Algo-rhythm And Mello-dy : A Consideration Of The Relationship Between Technology And The Embodied Performance Of Music / Daniel Black -- Bob Dylan Ain't Talking : One Man's Vast Comic Adventre In American Music, Dramaturgy, And Mysticism / Peter Murphy -- Music And Religion : Reflections On Cultural Secularization / David Roberts -- Prophet And Priest, Ascetic And Mystic : Towards A Cultural Sociology Of The Twentieth Century Composer / Eduardo De La Fuente -- Collective Effervescence, Numinous Experience Or Proto-religious Phenomena? Moshing With Durkheim, Schleiermacher And Otto / Mark Jennings -- Music As A Space Of Possibilities / John Rundell -- Some Suggestions For A Phenomenology Of Rhythm / Stuart Grant -- The Paradox Of Do-it-yourself In Unpopular Music / Joseph Borlagdan -- Musical Culturespeak And Cosmopolitan Identities In Australian Multiculturalism / Graeme Smith -- The Piano And Cultural Modernity In East Asia / Alison Tokita -- Popular Music, Cultural Memory And Everyday Aesthetics / Andy Bennett -- Everything Is Dirt : Reevaluating The Place Of Cultural Status In Producing Aesthetic Attachment / Claudio E. Benzecry -- Musical Listening And Boundary-work / Michael Walsh. Edited By Eduardo De La Fuente And Peter Murphy. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.