Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History (Historical Materialism) - Softcover

Book 294 of 316: Historical Materialism

Hammel, Stephan

 
9798888905425: Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History (Historical Materialism)

Synopsis

Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History makes a convincing case for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of historical materialism to the musicological project.


The book interrogates the history of encounters between Marxism and music studies — both within and outside of the Soviet sphere — before staging the missed encounter between classical musicology and Second International Marxism. It concludes by constructing a new framework for understanding the history of style in terms of changes in the forces and relations of musical production.

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