[PDF.90rt] Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value

Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value

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 | #456167 in eBooks |  2011-09-01 |  2011-09-01 | File type: PDF

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Champion Classical, Don't Beat Up on Pop|By Timothy Bratton|It's quite clear that Julian Johnson has a deep understanding and appreciation of Classical Music. It is equally obvious that he doesn't have a clue nor does he seem to care about "popular music." It would probably help if he were to better define what he means by "popular music," but throughout the book you are left| ||"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 serves...

You easily download any file type for your device.Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value   |  Julian Johnson, Julian Johnson. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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