Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music

Eduardo De La Fuente, Ph.D (1999) in Humanities, Griffith University, is Lecturer in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University. He has published widely on the sociology of art and cultural sociology, including Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity (Routledge, 2010).Peter Murphy is Associate Professor of Communications and Director of the Social Aesthetics Research Unit, Monash University. He is co-author with Simon Marginson and Michael Peters of Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang, 2009), Global Creation (Peter Lang, 2010) and Imagination (Peter Lang, 2010). Murphy’s other recent books include Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism with David Roberts (Continuum, 2004) and Civic Justice (Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2001).

• Volume Foreword1. ‘Introduction: Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music’Eduardo De La Fuente and Peter Murphy2. ‘Modern Hermeneutics and the Presentation of Opera’Agnes Heller3. ‘Algo-Rhythm and Mello-dy: A Consideration of the Relationship BetweenTechnology and the Embodied Performance of MusicDaniel Black4. ‘Bob Dylan Ain’t Talking: One Man’s Vast Comic Adventure in AmericanMusic, Dramaturgy, and Mysticism’Peter Murphy5. ‘Music and Religion: Reflections on Cultural Secularization’David Roberts6. ‘Prophet and Priest, Ascetic and Mystic: Towards a cultural sociology of thetwentieth century composer’Eduardo De La Fuente7. ‘Collective Effervescence, Numinous Experience or Proto-ReligiousPhenomena? Moshing with Durkheim, Schleiermacher and Otto’Mark Jennings8. ‘Music as a Space of Possibilities’John Rundell9. ‘Some Suggestions for a Phenomenology of Rhythm’Stuart Grant10. ‘The Paradox of “Do-it-Yourself” in Unpopular Music’Joseph Borlagdan11. ‘Musical Culturespeak and Cosmopolitan Identities in Australian Multiculturalism’Graeme Smith12. ‘The Piano and Cultural Modernity in East Asia’Alison Tokita13. ‘Popular Music, Cultural Memory and Everyday Aesthetics’Andy Bennett14. ‘"Everything is dirt": Reevaluating the Place of Cultural Status in Producing Aesthetic AttachmentClaudio Benzecry15. ‘Musical Listening and Boundary-Work’Michael WalshAuthor details