The Value of Popular Music: An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics

by Alison Stone

In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music's stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing on ideas from the post-Kantian tradition in aesthetics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319835394
• ISBN13: 9783319835396
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"