Writing Through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics by Jann Pasler (En

Description: Writing Through Music by Jann Pasler Drawing on a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. Writing through Music brilliantly demonstrates how music can be a critical lens to focus the contemporary critical, cultural, historical, and social issues of our time. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, Pasler deconstructs the social, moral, and political preoccupationslurking behind aesthetic taste. Arguing that learning from musical experience is vital to our understanding of past, present, and future, Paslers work trenchantly reasserts the role of music as acrucial contributor to important public debates about who we can be as individuals, communities, and nations. The authors wide-ranging and perceptive approaches to musical biography and history challenge us to rethink our assumptions about important cultural and philosophical issues including national identity and postmodern musical hybridity, material culture, the economics of power, and the relationship between classical and popular music. Her work uncovers theself-fashioning of modernists such as Vincent dIndy, Augusta Holmes, Jean Cocteau, and John Cage, and addresses categories such as race, gender, and class in the early 20th century in ways that resonate withexperiences today. She also explores how music uses time and constructs narrative. Paslers innovative and influential methodological approaches, such as her notion of "question-spaces," open up the complex cultural and political networks in which music participates. This provides us with the reasons and tools to engage with music in fresh and exciting ways. In these thoughtful essays, music--whether beautiful or cacophonous, reassuring or seemingly incomprehensible--comesalive as a bearer of ideas and practices that offers deep insights into how we negotiate the world. Jann Paslers Writing through Music brilliantly demonstrates how music can be a critical lens tofocus the contemporary critical, cultural, historical, and social issues of our time. Author Biography Jann Pasler is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Among her books is "Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist "(UC Press) and "Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics". Table of Contents Foreword by George E. LewisIntroduction Part I: Time, Narrative, and Memory1. Narrative and Narrativity in Music2. Postmodernism, Narrativity, and the Art of Memory3. Resituating the Spectral Revolution: French AntecedentsPart II: Self-Fashioning4. Deconstructing dIndy, or the Problem of the Composers Reputation5. New Music as Confrontation: The Musical Sources of Cocteaus Identity6. Inventing a Tradition: John Cages "Composition in Retrospect" Part III: Identity and Nation7. Pelléas and Power: Forces behind the Reception of Debussys Opera8. The Ironies of Gender, or Virility and Politics in the Music of Augusta Holmès9. Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the "Yellow Peril"Part IV: Patrons and Patronage10. Countess Greffulhe as Entrepreneur: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation11. The Political Economy of Composition in the American University, 1965-1985Part V: The Everyday Life of the Past12. Concert Programs and Their Narratives as Emblems of Ideology13. Material Culture and Postmodern Positivism: Rethinking the "Popular" in Late Nineteenth-Century French MusicAppendicesAppendix 1. Definitions of Terminology Used in Chapter 1Appendix 2. Public Performances and Publications of Music by Augusta HolmèsAppendix 3. Relationship between NEA Support and Composers Educational BackgroundAppendix 4. Relationship between NEA Support and Composers Institutional AffiliationAppendix 5. Educational Background and Institutional Affiliation of Most Frequent NEA PanelistsAppendix 6. Winners of Largest NEA Composer Grants Each Year, 1973-1985Index Review "The astonishingly wide-ranging and trenchant essays in Jann Paslers Writing Through Music are united by their passionate engagement in the history, theory, and criticism of Modernist and Postmodernist musics. Paslers stated aim-"to flesh out the contingencies and rich complexity of the particular moments in which music was conceived, created, performed, and heard," is admirably realized in this collection. Throughout, Pasler displays a dazzlingcommand of scholarship and archival research, and she has assembled a wealth of materials that support her arguments. Reading Writing Through Music is an exhilarating experience."-- Marjorie Perloff, ProfessorEmeritus, Stanford University"Writing Through Music takes us into the deeper meanings of the world currents that flow in the vast non linear context of music. Pasler knows the music and she also knows that music involves much more than the sounds performers play. Music resounds as a profound force in global culture. She fearlessly investigates and finds the roots of major relationships through her scholarship and passion. I recognize my own living through music reflected in herenlightening article on composers. The writing also flows beautifully in each essay. The intelligence of Paslers essays is the basis for a new musicology."-- Pauline Oliveros, Composer"Pasler helps us to see how doing things with music (including writing about music) is social action, writ large....What makes Jann Paslers work so special is that it combines finely grained historically located research with theoretical power and an anthropological focus - nothing is, in principle, peripheral to socio-musical study since everything is in principle, inter-related music and writing about music is a critical tool and one that activates anddevelops multiple layers of awareness. In concentrating on the dialectical relationship between music and extra-musical phenomena, Pasler illuminates musics importance in the world."-- Tia DeNora,Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, Sociology/Philosophy, University of Exeter"Jann Paslers Writing Through Music represents humanistic scholarship at its very best - an account of why music matters not only to musicians but to all of us, a powerful explanation of why her identifications as a woman and as a postmodernist should inflect her work."--Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles"Evocative and entertaining." --Music & Letters Long Description Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, Pasler deconstructs the social, moral, and political preoccupationslurking behind aesthetic taste. Arguing that learning from musical experience is vital to our understanding of past, present, and future, Paslers work trenchantly reasserts the role of music as a crucial contributor to important public debates about who we can be as individuals, communities, andnations. The authors wide-ranging and perceptive approaches to musical biography and history challenge us to rethink our assumptions about important cultural and philosophical issues including national identity and postmodern musical hybridity, material culture, the economics of power, and the relationship between classical and popular music. Her work uncovers the self-fashioning of modernists such as Vincent dIndy, Augusta Holmès, Jean Cocteau, and John Cage, andaddresses categories such as race, gender, and class in the early 20th century in ways that resonate with experiences today. She also explores how music uses time and constructs narrative. Paslers innovative and influential methodological approaches, such as her notion of "question-spaces," open up thecomplex cultural and political networks in which music participates. This provides us with the reasons and tools to engage with music in fresh and exciting ways. In these thoughtful essays, music--whether beautiful or cacophonous, reassuring or seemingly incomprehensible--comes alive as a bearer of ideas and practices that offers deep insights into how we negotiate the world. Jann Paslers Writing through Music brilliantly demonstrates how music can be a criticallens to focus the contemporary critical, cultural, historical, and social issues of our time. Review Text "The astonishingly wide-ranging and trenchant essays in Jann Paslers Writing Through Music are united by their passionate engagement in the history, theory, and criticism of Modernist and Postmodernist musics. Paslers stated aim-"to flesh out the contingencies and rich complexity of the particular moments in which music was conceived, created, performed, and heard," is admirably realized in this collection. Throughout, Pasler displays a dazzlingcommand of scholarship and archival research, and she has assembled a wealth of materials that support her arguments. Reading Writing Through Music is an exhilarating experience."-- Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University"Writing Through Music takes us into the deeper meanings of the world currents that flow in the vast non linear context of music. Pasler knows the music and she also knows that music involves much more than the sounds performers play. Music resounds as a profound force in global culture. She fearlessly investigates and finds the roots of major relationships through her scholarship and passion. I recognize my own living through music reflected in herenlightening article on composers. The writing also flows beautifully in each essay. The intelligence of Paslers essays is the basis for a new musicology."-- Pauline Oliveros, Composer"Pasler helps us to see how doing things with music (including writing about music) is social action, writ large....What makes Jann Paslers work so special is that it combines finely grained historically located research with theoretical power and an anthropological focus - nothing is, in principle, peripheral to socio-musical study since everything is in principle, inter-related music and writing about music is a critical tool and one that activates anddevelops multiple layers of awareness. In concentrating on the dialectical relationship between music and extra-musical phenomena, Pasler illuminates musics importance in the world."-- Tia DeNora, Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, Sociology/Philosophy, University of Exeter"Jann Paslers Writing Through Music represents humanistic scholarship at its very best - an account of why music matters not only to musicians but to all of us, a powerful explanation of why her identifications as a woman and as a postmodernist should inflect her work."--Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles"Evocative and entertaining." --Music & Letters Review Quote "The astonishingly wide-ranging and trenchant essays in Jann Paslers Writing Through Music are united by their passionate engagement in the history, theory, and criticism of Modernist and Postmodernist musics. Paslers stated aim-"to flesh out the contingencies and rich complexity of the particular moments in which music was conceived, created, performed, and heard," is admirably realized in this collection. Throughout, Pasler displays a dazzling command of scholarship and archival research, and she has assembled a wealth of materials that support her arguments. Reading Writing Through Music is an exhilarating experience."-- Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University "Writing Through Music takes us into the deeper meanings of the world currents that flow in the vast non linear context of music. Pasler knows the music and she also knows that music involves much more than the sounds performers play. Music resounds as a profound force in global culture. She fearlessly investigates and finds the roots of major relationships through her scholarship and passion. I recognize my own living through music reflected in her enlightening article on composers. The writing also flows beautifully in each essay. The intelligence of Paslers essays is the basis for a new musicology."-- Pauline Oliveros, Composer "Pasler helps us to see how doing things with music (including writing about music) is social action, writ large....What makes Jann Paslers work so special is that it combines finely grained historically located research with theoretical power and an anthropological focus - nothing is, in principle, peripheral to socio-musical study since everything is in principle, inter-related music and writing about music is a critical tool and one that activates and develops multiple layers of awareness. In concentrating on the dialectical relationship between music and extra-musical phenomena, Pasler illuminates musics importance in the world."-- Tia DeNora, Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, Sociology/Philosophy, University of Exeter "Jann Paslers Writing Through Music represents humanistic scholarship at its very best - an account of why music matters not only to musicians but to all of us, a powerful explanation of why her identifications as a woman and as a postmodernist should inflect her work."--Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles "Evocative and entertaining." --Music & Letters Feature Pasler is the current editor of the AMS Studies in Music series.*American Musicological Society (annual conferences) **Society for Ethnomusicology (annual conferences) *International Musicological Society (conferences every 5 years) **International Society for the Study of Time (conferences every 3 years?) **Société française de musicologie (France) (sponsors various conferences) Royal Musical Association (Britain) (annual conference) **International Conference on 19th-centuryMusic (Britain, every 2 years) **Feminist Theory and Music (Bi-annual conferences, USA and Britain) **Annual conferences on Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts (international and interdisciplinary) **International Sociological Association, Committee on Sociology of Arts (annual conferences) European Sociological Association **Modern Languages Association (annual conferences)* conferences author regularly attends** conferences at which author has delivered papersSelling point: A groundbreaking collection that challenges assumptions about important cultural issues including national identity and postmodern musical hybridity, material culture, the economics of power, and the relationship between classical and popular musicSelling point: Draws together a variety of fields, bridging multiple disciplinesSelling point: Includes both new essays and material previously published in difficult-to-find journals, volumes, and festschriften, many available only in French Details ISBN0199336105 Author Jann Pasler Pages 530 Year 2014 ISBN-10 0199336105 ISBN-13 9780199336104 Format Paperback Short Title WRITING THROUGH MUSIC Language English Media Book DEWEY 780.9 Subtitle Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics Imprint Oxford University Press USA Audience Professional and Scholarly Position Professor of Music Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Professor of Music, University of California-San Diego Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2014-07-10 UK Release Date 2014-07-10 AU Release Date 2014-07-10 NZ Release Date 2014-07-10 US Release Date 2014-07-10 Illustrations 53 halftones; 23 line illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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