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Author McClary, Susan

Title Conventional wisdom : the content of musical form / Susan McClary
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : illustrations
Series Bloch lectures
Ernest Bloch lectures.
Contents 1. Turtles all the way down (on the "purely musical") -- 2. Thinking blues -- 3. What was tonality? -- 4. The refuge of counterconvention -- 5. Reveling in the rubble : the postmodern condition
Summary This text is a re-examination of the concept of musical convention, exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge
Analysis Humaniora Musik
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-196) and index
Notes English
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Subject Music -- Social aspects.
Tonality.
Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
Postmodernism.
MUSIC -- Reference.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Blues (Music)
Music -- Social aspects
Postmodernism
Tonality
Musikalische Form
Aufsatzsammlung
Konvention
Tonalität
Blues
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520928084
0520928083
0585391238
9780585391236
0520221060
9780520221062