Rethinking Music

By: Cook, Nicholas

Book Overview

Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evalution of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimensions of musical study, revealing a range of concerns that are shared across the discipline: the nature of musicological practice, its social and ethical dimensions, issues of canon and value, and the relationship between academic study and musical experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198790031
• ISBN13: 9780198790037
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.3"