Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians

AvJoseph Straus

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians—composers, performers, listeners, and scholars—and how those forms of music- making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly are distinctive and valuable ways of making music—a difference, not a deficit; to be celebrated, not ignored or condemned.Instead of the usual biomedical or gerontological understanding of old age, with its focus on bodily, cognitive, and sensory decline, this book follows Age Studies in seeing old age through a cultural lens, as something created and understood in culture. This book seeks to identify the ways that old musicians (composers, performers, listeners, and scholars) accept, resist, adapt, and transform the cultural scripts for the performance of old age. Musicking oldly (making music in old age) often represents an attempt to rewrite ageist cultural scripts and to find ways of flourishing musically in a largely hostile landscape.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:280 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:138
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032788166

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Joseph N. Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in music since 1900. He has written technical music-theoretical articles, analytical studies of music by a variety of modernist composers, and, more recently, a series of articles and books that engage disability as a cultural practice.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Old Age as Culture Chapter 3 Cultural Scripts for Old Age Chapter 4 Staging Old Age Chapter 5 Composing Oldly Chapter 6 Performing Oldly Chapter 7 Listening Oldly

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