Books on Music

Reading after Summer 2000

Surveys

  Glenn Watkins. Pyramids at the Louvre : Music, Culture, and cCllage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists.  Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
 

Culture

  Stanley Aronowitz.   Roll over Beethoven : the Return of  Cultural Strife.  Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, c1993.

  Jacques Barzun.  From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present;  500 Years of Western Cultural Life.  New York:  HarperCollins, c2000.

  Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer.  Literary Criticism; Literary and cultural Studies, fourth edition.  New York:  Longman, c1998.

  Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

  Edward W. Said. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, c 1978
 

Music

  Lawrence Kramer. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995.

  Jonathan Bellman, ed. The Exotic in Western Music.Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1998.

  Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. Western Music and Its Others. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000.

  David Brackett. Interpreting Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995, 2000.

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Music and Discourse; Toward a Semiology of Music. Carolyn Abbate, trsl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1990.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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