Music and Cultural TheoryISBN: 978-0-7456-0864-8
Paperback
240 pages
August 1997, Polity
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The authors pursue this argument through a wide-ranging assessment
of some of the major cultural theoretical contributions to
understanding music. Theories of culture, linguistic theories,
structuralist and post-structuralist theories and psychoanalytic
theories of music are carefully explained and critically examined.
The authors then develop their own account of music as a
non-referential yet material form of human expression which
embodies and conveys principles of symbolic structuring. They
emphasize the human body as a principal site for the musical
mediation of social and symbolic processes.
Music and Cultural Theory establishes new links between
musicology and cultural studies, showing how each discipline can
inform and enrich the other. It will be recommended reading for
students and professionals in musicology, media and communication
studies, cultural studies and the sociology of culture.