Edward Said

Music at the Limits

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Music at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays on music. Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and performers, Said analyses music's social and political contexts, and provides rich and often surprising assessments. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits reinforces Said's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
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502 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • Sofya Averchenkovahas quoted7 years ago
    Paul Kennedy, Fukuyama, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Thomas Friedman, Benjamin Barber
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    what if a new hybrid identity is being slowly made apparent, one for whom neither territory nor traditional identity will serve as they once did?
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    the older Beethoven abandons an anthropocentric classical worldview inherited from the Enlightenment and, like the literary and philosophic Romantics who were his contemporaries, he returns again and again to a transfigured or renovated classical world, even to the point of adapting classical Greek meters to organize his great Seventh Symphony in an attempt to “evoke the ancient pagan world via a fantasy reconstruction of its music.” This, says Solomon, is a Classic-Romantic revalidation of “the cultural, ethical, and aesthetic premises of Antiquity.” It is also, we need to add, yet another instance of what E. M. Butler has called the tyranny of Greece over
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