Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

by Jacques Barzun

Book Overview

This collection of writings allows the reader a rare opportunity to see Barzun's lively, engaging, rich, and original mind at work on several strategic areas of cultural inquiry: music and the musical life, esthetics, biography, criticism, and social commentary. Barzun makes use of a variety of contexts as a forum for evidence and opinion, including essays, program notes, letters, and reviews. And he approaches a wide variety of particular and general...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226038637
• ISBN13: 9780226038636
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.2"