On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification: Essays in the Sociology of Western Art Musics

On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification: Essays in the Sociology of Western Art Musics
ISBN-10
1644697483
ISBN-13
9781644697481
Category
Music
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2021-12-14
Publisher
Academic Studies PRess
Author
Judah Matras

Description

This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance. The essays in this book explore the concepts of “existential irony” and “sanctification,” which have been mentioned or discussed by music scholars, historians, and musicologists only either in connection with specific composers’ works (Shostakovich’s, in the case of “existential irony”) or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of “classical” musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.

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