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The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Taruskin
| The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Taruskin |
| Autore | Taruskin Richard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (508 p.) |
| Disciplina | 780.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Musical criticism
Music trade |
| Soggetto non controllato |
21st century art criticism
21st century music criticism aesthetics anti utopian thought art post 9/11 arts bach beethoven boris goudenow career classical music colonialism contemporary composition contemporary performance critics ethics ezra pound hindemith legacy historians lifetime modernism music musicology nationalism nature optimism performance political art politics public musicologist pundits sterility stravinsky terrorist attacks teutonic train wreck the new york times wagner |
| ISBN |
1-282-36081-7
9786612360817 0-520-94279-5 |
| Classificazione | LR 56800 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Against Utopia -- 1. Et in Arcadia Ego Or, I Didn't Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing -- 2. Only Time Will Cover the Taint -- 3. "Nationalism": Colonialism in Disguise? -- 4. Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? -- 5. Optimism amid the Rubble -- 6. A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck -- 7. Does Nature Call the Tune? -- 8. Two Stabs at the Universe -- 9. In Search of the "Good" Hindemith Legacy -- 10. Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection -- 11. A Beethoven Season? -- 12. Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist -- 13. How Talented Composers Become Useless -- 14. Making a Stand against Sterility -- 15. A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century -- 16. Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions! -- 17. In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All -- 18. Markevitch as Icarus -- 19. Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers -- 20. Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? -- 21. Bartók and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? -- 22. Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party -- 23. A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism -- 24. Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks -- 25. Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? -- 26. The Danger of Music and the Case for Control -- 27. Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality -- 28. Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart -- 29. Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late -- 30. The First Modernist -- 31. The Dark Side of the Moon -- 32. Of Kings and Divas -- 33. The Golden Age of Kitsch -- 34. No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage -- 35. Sacred Entertainments -- 36. The Poietic Fallacy -- 37. The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees -- 38. Revising Revision -- 39. Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology -- 40. She Do the Ring in Different Voices -- 41. Stravinsky and Us -- 42. Setting Limits (a talk) -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777952803321 |
Taruskin Richard
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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Why America's top pundits are wrong [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists talk back / / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
| Why America's top pundits are wrong [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists talk back / / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Disciplina | 302.23 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BestemanCatherine Lowe
GustersonHugh |
| Collana | California series in public anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
Mass media and anthropology
Communication - Social aspects Communication in anthropology Communication - Political aspects Specialists Common fallacies |
| Soggetto non controllato |
america
american foreign policy anthology anthropologists anthropology biology contemporary world controversial topics democratic dinesh dsouza essay collection ethnic violence fieldwork gendered violence globalization history and sociology humanistic modern critique nonfiction essays political thought poverty pundits race issues robert kaplan samuel huntington social issues social justice social science thomas friedman under scrutiny welfare yugoslavia |
| ISBN |
1-4175-7368-6
1-282-76316-4 1-59875-008-9 9786612763168 0-520-93848-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Seven Deadly Sins Of Samuel Huntington -- 3. Samuel Huntington, Meet The Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, And The Clash Of Civilizations -- 4. Haunted By The Imaginations Of The Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts -- 5. Why I Disagree With Robert Kaplan -- 6. Globalization And Thomas Friedman -- 7. On The Lexus And The Olive Tree, By Thomas L. Friedman -- 8. Extrastate Globalization Of The Illicit -- 9. Class Politics And Scavenger Anthropology In Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue Of Prosperity -- 10. Sex On The Brain: A Natural History Of Rape And The Dubious Doctrines Of Evolutionary Psychology -- 11. Anthropology And The Bell Curve -- Notes -- Suggested Further Reading -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783133303321 |
| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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