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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778052003321

Autore

Savage Roger W. H

Titolo

Hermeneutics and music criticism [[electronic resource] /] / Roger W.H. Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-83925-5

1-282-32595-7

9786612325953

0-203-87515-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

781.1/7

781.17

Soggetti

Musical criticism

Musicology

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aesthetics, hermeneutics, criticism -- Social Werktreue and the subjectivization of aesthetics -- From musikeĢ„ to metaphysics -- Formalist aesthetics and musical hermeneutics -- Deconstructing the disciplinary divide -- The question of metaphor -- Mimesis and the hermeneutics of music -- Political critique and the politics of music criticism -- Toward a hermeneutics of music criticism.

Sommario/riassunto

Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings of music's transformative power. The engagement with critical musicologists and philosophers, including Adorno, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, provides a nuanced analysis of the crucial issues affecting the theory and practice of music criticism. By challenging musical hermeneutics? deployment as a