(Mobile pdf) Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value
♛ Julian Johnson ♛
| #2185742 in Books | 2002-03-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.30 x1.00 x9.30l,.82 | File Name: 0195146816 | 152 pages
||3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| highly recommended|By Witold|Very intelligently written, at times slightly uneven in quality and occasionally redundant. In my case, I was glad to find someone who shares many of my thoughts (and knows how to put them in writing so well). Probably the best book on the subject. It doesn't contain much preaching or educational "advice". The writing is dense and initially seems v|||"You will often cheer out loud! I did...more profound than can be communicated in a book review. I read this twice. Like all my favorite books, I will read it again and again. Nothing is more relevant to classical music devotees."--American Record Guide<
During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson challenges these assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgements. The author maintains that music is more than just "a matter of taste": while some music provides entertainment, or serve...
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