Sound Judgment: Selected Essays (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series) - Hardcover

Leppert, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754626830 ISBN 13: 9780754626831

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The essays in Sound Judgment span the full career of Richard Leppert, from his earliest to work that appears here for the first time, on subjects drawn from early modernity to the present concerning music both popular and classical, European and North American. Noted for his path-breaking interdisciplinary scholarship on music and visual culture, the collection includes key essays on music's visualization in art practices in virtually all visual media, including film. The fourteen essays comprising this volume demonstrate Leppert's many contributions to critical musicology, particularly in the areas of aesthetics as well as social and intellectual history, all of it grounded in a heterodox body of critical and cultural theory, with the work of Theodor W. Adorno particularly noteworthy. The collection is preceded by an introduction in which Leppert traces his intellectual development, defined in large part by the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the 1960s and their aftermath both in the academy and in society at large.

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About the Author:

Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA. His research addresses the relations of music, imagery and associated practices to social and cultural formation, principally revolving around issues of gender, class and race in Europe and America from early modernity to the present.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0754626830
• ISBN 13: 9780754626831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358