Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening

by Jeremy S. Begbie

Book Overview

When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective, music is routinely ignored - despite its pervasiveness in modern culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God. In conversation with musicologists and music theorists, in this collection of essays Jeremy Begbie aims to show that the practices of music and the discourses it has generated bear their own kind of witness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199292442
• ISBN13: 9780199292448
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"