Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge by Lawrence Kramer

by Lawrence Kramer

The purpose of this book is to explore the new possibilities that post-modernist modes of thinking offer to the understanding of Western 'classical' music and, by implication, of music in general.

Genres: Music

Paperback

First published July 25, 1995

About the author

Lawrence Kramer is Professor of English and Music at Fordham University
and co-editor of the journal 19th-Century Music. He has held visiting
professorships at Yale, Columbia, the University of Graz, the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, and McMaster University. His work, focused on the
interrelations of music, culture, and society, comprises numerous essays
and a series of seven books, most recently including Musical Meaning:
Toward a Critical History (2001) and Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and
Strauss (2004), both published by the University of California Press.
Next year California will bring out Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing
Music in Cinema, a collection he edited with Daniel Goldmark and Richard
Leppert on the basis of an international conference that the three
organized in 2004.

Reviews

[Stuart Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

wish I had read Kramer on Ives 20 years ago.