Aesthetics and Music is a fresh, provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It makes an eloquent case for a humanistic, meritocratic and genuinely aesthetic conception of music and musical understanding. Anyone interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say about music as an art will find this thought-provoking and highly enjoyable book required reading.Thinkers discussed range from Pythagoras and Plato to Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno. Areas of music covered include classical, popular and traditional music, and jazz. This updated edition features new material, including three new chapters on the evolutionary perspective, words and music and music and language. There are guides to further reading, and new dialogues with some contemporary thinkers and musicians.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-17
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:334 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Aesthetics
Antal sidor:344
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350094352

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Musikböcker inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Andy Hamilton is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Durham University, UK. He writes for the contemporary music magazine The Wire, and is a jazz pianist.

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‘In this new edition of Aesthetics and Music, Andy Hamilton explores music and philosophy, moving beyond Eurocentric perspectives. I was fascinated by how the book challenges the idea of music as disembodied sound or abstract language, focusing instead on its embodied, multisensory and cultural dimensions.’

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List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Aesthetics and Music in Ancient Greece 2. The Concept of Music3. The Aesthetics of Form, the Aesthetics of Expression, and 'Absolute Music': Aesthetics of Music in the Late-18th and 19th Centuries 4. The Sound of Music5. Rhythm and Time 6. Adorno and Modernism: Music as Autonomous and 'Social Fact'7. Improvisation and Composition8. The Aesthetics of Recording9. Music and DanceAnnotated BibliographyIndex