Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics

By: John Rahn

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Paperback | 1 March 1995 | Edition Number 1

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Drawn from the influential journal Perspectives of New Music, these essays reflect a variety of artistic viewpoints and critical perspectives. The contributors include composers Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt, literary scholar Douglas Collins, anthropologist Eric Gans, philosopher Michel Foucault, and poet Delmore Schwartz. The authors contemplate music's origins and function, the changing relations between music and society, the effects of today's conflicting aesthetic notions on composition, and the relationship between music and other communicative behaviors. Taken together, the essays suggest a working aesthetic that would ensure the continual renewal of artistic tradition in Western culture. A fascinating collection of essays on creating, performing, and thinking about music in today's world.

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Introduction: The Aesthetics of Perspectives	p. 1
Aesthetic Theory	p. 5
Ritual Sacrifice and the Political Economy of Music	p. 9
Language for One, Language for All: Adorno and Modernism	p. 21
Art and Entertainment	p. 40
What Is Valuable in Art, and Can Music Still Achieve It?	p. 54
The Beginning and End of Esthetic Form	p. 66
Contemporary Music and the Public	p. 81
Contemporary Music and the Public	p. 83
Are You Serious?	p. 90
Recent Ideas and Activities of James K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz: A New Social Role for Music	p. 107
Interface I-V: Texts and Commentaries on Music and Life	p. 116
Commentary: The Barrytown Orchestra on Hunger Day, November 15, 1984	p. 116
Thoughts in Reply to Boulez/Foucault: "Contemporary Music and the Public"	p. 121
Relevance. Liberation	p. 125
On Thinking about Various Issues Induced by the Problem of Discovering That One Is Not a 'Composer', and That the Space Which One Inhabits Musically Is Not 'America'	p. 129
The Inner Studio (Strategies for Retrieving Reality in Music Experience and Practice)	p. 134
On Being A Composer	p. 143
On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer	p. 145
Tokyo Lecture and Three Mesostics	p. 152
Creativity	p. 158
Composing Music	p. 165
Environment, Consciousness, And Magic	p. 175
Speculations: On the Evolutionary Continuity of Music and Animal Communication Behavior	p. 177
Four Texts	p. 194
On the Role of Affect in Artificial Intelligence and Music	p. 204
Environment, Consciousness, and Magic: An Interview with David Dunn	p. 234
Music And Literature	p. 247
Joyce's Critique of Music	p. 249
Symposium: The Nature of Music	p. 291
Music and Emotion	p. 293
Poetry as Imitation	p. 297
Music as Imitation	p. 302
For a Friend	p. 313
LA	p. 316
The Survival Of Aesthetics	p. 331
The Survival of Aesthetics: Books by Boulez, part of subtitle DeLio, Rochberg	p. 333
Response to Blaustein	p. 365
Open Structure and the Problem of Criticism: Reflections on DeLio's Circumscribing the Open Universe	p. 373
About the Authors	p. 379
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