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27%OFFSusan McClary - Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form - 9780520232082 - V9780520232082
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Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form

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Description for Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form Paperback. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, this book offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. It tackles big issues concerning classical, popular, and postmodern repertoires and their relations to the broader musical worlds that create and enjoy them. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 219 pages, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, "Conventional Wisdom" offers an account of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues. McClary looks at musical history from new and unexpected angles and moves easily across a broad range of repertoires - the blues, eighteenth-century tonal music, late Beethoven, and rap. As one of the most influential trailblazers in contemporary musical understanding, McClary once again moves beyond the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Series
Ernest Bloch Lectures
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520232082
SKU
V9780520232082
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About Susan McClary
Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (1991) and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).

Reviews for Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form
"Conventional Wisdom is a contribution to musicology of the first order. The field will have to reckon with it for years to come, for it will become the point of departure for discussions not only on the foundation of classical tonality and the American blues, but also for its deconstruction of the borderlands of 'the purely musical'." - Jose David ... Read more

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