Deconstructive Variations by Rose Rosengard Subotnik

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Deconstructive Variations by Rose Rosengard Subotnik

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In this sequel to her last book "Developing Variations", Rose Rosengard Subotnik continues her work on musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, linking music to social and cultural contexts and breaking down the barriers between music and life.

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Deconstructive Variations by Rose Rosengard Subotnik

Deconstructive Variations was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Unique in its focus and its interdisciplinary reach, Rose Rosengard Subotnik's work is among the most original and challenging being done in American musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, firmly linking music to social and cultural context and breaking down the barriers between music and life. Deconstructive Variations is a sequel to Subotnik's previous collection, Developing Variations. It expands and continues her achievement-the promotion of humanistic criticism as a significant activity in music scholarship and the portrayal of Western art music in relation to the social structures and cultural values of the society that created it. Bringing to her subject a vast range of philosophical, artistic, and historical knowledge, Subotnik applies the insights of Kant, Adorno, Bakhtin, and Derrida to major works of Mozart and Chopin. Each of these essays functions as an argument between two views: for and against the ideal of structural listening; Enlightenment and Romantic readings of The Magic Flute; high-modernist and postmodernist readings of Chopin's A-Major Prelude; and conceptions of reason put forward by Allan Bloom and Spike Lee. Rose Rosengard Subotnik is professor emerita in the department of music at Brown University, and is the author of Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music (Minnesota, 1991).
Rose Rosengard Subotnik is professor in the Department of Music at Brown University.
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ISBN 13 9780816621989
ISBN 10 0816621985
Title Deconstructive Variations
Author Rose Subotnik
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Year published 1995-12-28
Number of pages 376
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