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 Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-viii)   (157K)
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    • Contents
    • Volume Foreword
  • Introduction: Philosophical And Cultural Theories Of Music (1-12) by Eduardo De La Fuente and Peter Murphy   (134K)
  • Modern Hermeneutics And The Presentation Of Opera (13-30) by Agnes Heller   (132K)
  • Algo-Rhythm And Mello-Dy: A Consideration Of The Relationship Between Technology And The Embodied Performance Of Music (31-48) by Daniel Black   (139K)
  • Bob Dylan Ain'T Talking: One Man's Vast Comic Adventure In American Music, Dramaturgy, And Mysticism (49-70) by Peter Murphy   (171K)
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    • Jokerman: The American Picaro And His Idiot Audience
    • Comedy, Not Tragedy
    • Epic Myth: From Lincoln County Road To Armageddon
  • Music And Religion: Reflections On Cultural Secularization (71-86) by David Roberts   (142K)
  • Prophet And Priest, Ascetic And Mystic: Towards A Cultural Sociology Of The Twentieth Century Composer (87-106) by Eduardo De La Fuente   (144K)
  • Collective Effervescence, Numinous Experience Or Proto-Religious Phenomena? Moshing With Durkheim, Schleiermacher And Otto (107-128) by Mark Jennings   (147K)
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    • Emile Durkheim: The Sacred And Profane And Collective Effervescence
    • Collective Effervescence And The WCBR
    • Friedrich Schleiermacher: Intuitions Of The Universe, Culture And Religion
    • Intuitions Of The Universe And The WCBR
    • Rudolf Otto: The Numinous, The Holy And The Essence Of Religion
    • The Numinous And The WCBR
    • Conclusion
  • Music As A Space Of Possibilities (129-150) by John Rundell   (145K)
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    • Introduction
    • Rhythms And Melodies
    • Max Weber And The Problem Of The Seventh
    • Musical Modernity: The Simultaneity Of Independent Voices
    • Music As A Space Of Possibilities
  • Some Suggestions For A Phenomenology Of Rhythm (151-174) by Stuart Grant   (179K)
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    • What This Writing Is
    • Preamble
    • Thesis
    • Context
    • Stage 1—Background Studies
    • Stage 2—Group Phenomenological Method
    • Stage 3—Transcendental Phenomenology
  • The Paradox Of "Do-It-Yourself" In Unpopular Music (175-200) by Joseph Borlagdan   (170K)
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    • Why ‘Unpopular Music’?
    • A Post-Subcultural Approach
    • Researching The Independent Music Community
    • The Field Of Restricted Cultural Production
    • The Paradoxical Place Of DIY In Participatory Culture
    • The Aesthetics Of DIY: Lo-Fi And The Construction Of Authenticity
    • An In(ter)dependent Music Community
    • Relative Independence: Autonomy Within The Restricted Field
    • Conclusion
  • Musical Culturespeak And Cosmopolitan Identities In Australian Multiculturalism (201-220) by Graeme Smith   (159K)
  • The Piano And Cultural Modernity In East Asia (221-242) by Alison Tokita   (173K)
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    • Current High Status Of The Piano In East Asia
    • Piano And Nationalism
    • Reasons For The Enthusiastic Take-Up
    • Looking For The Answer In The Colonial Era
    • Government Policy: Top-Down Imposition
    • Japanese Colonial Influence
    • Sideways Influence: They Came To Stay, Uninvited But Welcomed
    • Bottom-Up: The Spontaneous Desire For Western Music
    • (Musical) Modernity In The East Asian Context
    • Dilemmas Of Modernity: The Overcoming Modernity Debate, 1942
    • Cultural Capital
  • Popular Music, Cultural Memory And Everyday Aesthetics (243-262) by Andy Bennett   (146K)
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    • Cultural Memory
    • Popular Music And Aesthetics
    • Popular Music And Lifestyle
    • Musical Artefacts And The Embedding Of Cultural Memory
    • Music, Cultural Memory And The Cultural Industries
    • Conclusion
  • Everything Is Dirt: Reevaluating The Place Of Cultural Status In Producing Aesthetic Attachment (263-286) by Claudio E. Benzecry   (1M)
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    • Singers, Picketers And Strikers
    • A Magic Citadel Crumbles
    • Breaches
    • Corruption
    • Party Politics
    • Lack Of Vocation
    • Dirt
    • Conclusion
  • Musical Listening And Boundary-Work (287-308) by Michael Walsh   (142K)
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    • Introduction
    • Social Boundaries And ‘Boundary-Work’
    • Creating Public And Private Social Life Through Boundary-Work
    • Boundaries And Musical Listening
    • Boundary-Work And Musical Listening In The Home
  • List Of Contributors (309-312)   (118K)
  • Index (313-316)   (120K)