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45 produkter
Experience
A History
Inbunden, 2026
301 kr
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A lyrical, provocative journey into the art, memory, and meaning of experience.What does it mean to have an experience? When did we begin to believe we could “have" one at all? In Experience: A History, Lawrence Kramer traces the cultural birth of experience as a singular, life-defining event. …
Hart Crane's 'the Bridge'
An Annotated Edition
Av Hart Crane, Lawrence Kramer
Inbunden, 2011
529 kr
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Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics— a charge that became conventional wisdom—this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of the finest achievements of twentieth-century …
Musical Meaning and Human Values
Av Keith Chapin, Lawrence Kramer
Häftad, 2009
444 kr
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Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the …
Experiencing Sound
The Sensation of Being
Inbunden, 2024
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
252 kr
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From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the …
Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900
Häftad, 1993
412 kr
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In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms …
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
Häftad, 1996
304 kr
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A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music--the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded …
After the Lovedeath
Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture
Häftad, 2000
412 kr
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This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how …
Beyond the Soundtrack
Representing Music in Cinema
Av Daniel Ira Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
456 kr
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This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film. Refuting the familiar idea that music serves as an unnoticed prop for narrative, these essays …
Opera and Modern Culture
Wagner and Strauss
Häftad, 2007
397 kr
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In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music's various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and …
Why Classical Music Still Matters
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
243 kr
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'What can be done about the state of classical music?' Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today's media-saturated world …
Interpreting Music
Inbunden, 2010
1190 kr
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"Interpreting Music" is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, …
Interpreting Music
Häftad, 2010
312 kr
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"Interpreting Music" is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, …
Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2012
882 kr
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Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. …
Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
Häftad, 2012
270 kr
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Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. …
Thought of Music
Inbunden, 2016
984 kr
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What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions - questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. …
Thought of Music
Häftad, 2016
350 kr
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What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions-questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In …
Hum of the World
A Philosophy of Listening
Inbunden, 2019
262 kr
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The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and …
Musical Meaning
Toward a Critical History
Häftad, 2021
314 kr
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Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of asking about meaning in the lived experience of musical works, styles, and performances. Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of new …
Hum of the World
A Philosophy of Listening
Häftad, 2021
202 kr
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The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and …
Music and the Forms of Life
Inbunden, 2022
938 kr
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Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by …
Music and the Forms of Life
Häftad, 2022
350 kr
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Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical works by …
Experiencing Sound
The Sensation of Being
E-bok, 2024
428 kr
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From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the …
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
E-bok, 1995
518 kr
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A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded …
Musical Meaning
Toward a Critical History
E-bok, 2001
464 kr
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How have romantic narratives involving Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata affected how we hear this famous piece? How does John Coltrane's African American identity affect the way we hear him perform a relatively "white" pop standard like "My Favorite Things"? Why does music requiring great virtuosity …
Why Classical Music Still Matters
E-bok, 2007
411 kr
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"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted for at least a decade, has always had its staunch advocates, but in today’s media-saturated world …
Beyond the Soundtrack
Representing Music in Cinema
Av Richard Leppert, Lawrence Kramer m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
535 kr
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This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film. Refuting the familiar idea that music serves as an unnoticed prop for narrative, these essays …
Opera and Modern Culture
Wagner and Strauss
E-bok, 2004
464 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music''s most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music''s various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and …
Interpreting Music
E-bok, 2010
520 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, …
Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
E-bok, 2012
487 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. …
Thought of Music
E-bok, 2016
598 kr
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What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially compelling at a time when humanistic knowledge is enmeshed in debates about its character and future. In …
