What does it mean to say that music is deeply moving? Or that music's aesthetic value derives from its deep structure? This study traces the widely employed trope of musical depth to its origins in German-language music criticism and analysis. From the Romantic aesthetics of E.T…
Edward T. Cone was one of the most important and influential music critics of the twentieth century. He was also a master lecturer skilled at conveying his ideas to broad audiences. Hearing and Knowing Music collects fourteen essays that Cone gave as talks in his later years and…
The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D.D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column t…
"When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the n…
"When Genres Collide is a provocative history that rethinks the relationship between jazz and rock through the lens of the two oldest surviving and most influential American popular music periodicals: Down Beat and Rolling Stone. Writing in 1955, Duke Ellington argued that the n…
"A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of 19th- and 20th-century music, this collection of nasty barbs culled mostly from newspapers and magazines makes for hilarious reading and belongs on the shelf of everyone who loves--or hates--classical music…
The Domestic versus the Foreign in Eighteenth-century Paris and London -- Elements of canon Formation at the Concert Spirituel / Beverly Wilcox -- To Praise or to criticize? The evolution of music criticism in eighteenth-century France -- Haydn in the press during the 1780s : Ho…
"Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In this book, Neil Levi explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the antimodernist polemics of …
IIrony is a key feature of the pop literature around 2000 and of theoretically ambitious music journalism around 1980. But whereas the pop program of the 1980s still was integrated into emancipatory concepts of 'counterculture', this meaningful context has since then declined no…
Irony is a key feature of the pop literature around 2000 and of theoretically ambitious music journalism around 1980. But whereas the pop program of the 1980s still was integrated into emancipatory concepts of 'counterculture', this meaningful context has since then declined not…
