Loving Music Till It Hurts

Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might...
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Author: William Cheng
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Loving Music Till It Hurts by Cheng, William

Loving Music Till It Hurts

€80,90

Loving Music Till It Hurts

€80,90
Author: William Cheng
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite do justice to Mozart's Requiem. Such lively language upholds music as a sentient companion susceptible to injury and in need of fierce protection.

There's nothing wrong with the human instinct to safeguard beloved music . . . except, perhaps, when this instinct leads us to hurt or neglect fellow human beings in turn: say, by heaping outsized shame upon those who seem to do music wrong; or by rushing to defend a conductor's beautiful recordings while failing to defend the multiple victims who have accused this maestro of sexual assault. Loving Music Till It Hurts is a capacious exploration of how people's head-over-heels attachments to music can variously align or conflict with agendas of social justice. How do we respond when loving music and loving people appear to clash?


Author: William Cheng
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2019
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780190620134

About the Author

William Cheng is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. His books include Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford, 2014), Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (Michigan, 2016), Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford, 2019), and Queering the Field: Sounding Out
Ethnomusicology (Oxford, 2019, coedited with Gregory Barz). He serves as a coeditor of University of Michigan Press's "Music & Social Justice" series.

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