LEADER 04010nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910810644303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-75247-9 010 $a9786611752477 010 $a1-4294-7181-6 010 $a0-520-93364-8 010 $a1-4337-0967-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520933644 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354331 035 $a(EBL)291505 035 $a(OCoLC)437178391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271640 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205656 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271640 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293481 035 $a(PQKB)10249863 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC291505 035 $a(DE-B1597)519838 035 $a(OCoLC)134938527 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520933644 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL291505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170136 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL175247 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354331 100 $a20070119d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy classical music still matters /$fLawrence Kramer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. ;$aLondon $cUniversity of California Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-25803-7 311 0 $a0-520-25082-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIn Lieu Of A Preface --$tChapter One. Classical Music And Its Values --$tChapter Two. The Fate Of Melody And The Dream Of Return --$tChapter Three. Score And Performance, Performance And Film: Classical Music As Liberating Energy --$tChapter Four. But Not For Me: Love Song And The Heartache Of Modern Life --$tChapter Five. The Ghost In The Machine: Keyboard Rhapsodies --$tChapter Six. Crisis And Memory: The Music Of Lost Time --$tChapter Seven. Persephone's Fiddle: The Value Of Classical Music --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $a"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world there are real concerns about its viability. Why Classical Music Still Matters takes a forthright approach by engaging both skeptics and music lovers alike. In seven highly original chapters, Why Classical Music Still Matters affirms the value of classical music-defined as a body of nontheatrical music produced since the eighteenth century with the single aim of being listened to-by revealing what its values are: the specific beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has supported in the past and which, Kramer believes, it can support in the future. Why Classical Music Still Matters also clears the air of old prejudices. Unlike other apologists, whose defense of the music often depends on arguments about the corrupting influence of popular culture, Kramer admits that classical music needs a broader, more up-to-date rationale. He succeeds in engaging the reader by putting into words music's complex relationship with individual human drives and larger social needs. In prose that is fresh, stimulating, and conversational, he explores the nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation of attention, and the liberation of human energy. 606 $aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics 606 $aMusical analysis 615 0$aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics. 615 0$aMusical analysis. 676 $a781.68 700 $aKramer$b Lawrence$f1946-$0758984 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810644303321 996 $aWhy classical music still matters$94062804 997 $aUNINA