Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide by Sheinbaum, John J.
Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide by Sheinbaum, John J.

Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious,...
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Author: John J. Sheinbaum
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Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide by Sheinbaum, John J.

Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

$648.43
Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide by Sheinbaum, John J.

Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to Decide

$648.43
Author: John J. Sheinbaum
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of "good" music--highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original--and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals.

In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores these traditional models for valuing music. By engaging examples such as Handel oratorios, Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, jazz improvisations, Bruce Springsteen, and prog rock, he argues that metaphors of perfection do justice to neither the perceived strengths nor the assumed weaknesses of the music in question. Instead, he proposes an alternative model of appreciation where abstract notions of virtue need not dictate our understanding. Good music can, with pride, be playful rather than serious, diverse rather than unified, engaging to both body and mind, in dialogue with manifold styles and genres, and collaborative to the core. We can widen the scope of what music we value and reconsider the conventional rituals surrounding it, while retaining the joys of making music, listening closely, and caring passionately.

Author: John J. Sheinbaum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11/29/2018
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780226593388


Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2019

About the Author
Sheinbaum, John J.: - John J. Sheinbaum is associate professor of musicology and associate director for academic affairs at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.

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