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The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays / Richard Taruskin.

By: Taruskin, RichardMaterial type: TextTextSeries: A Roth Family Foundation book on music in AmericaPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2008Description: xvi, 488 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780520249776 (hbk.) :; 0520249771 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Musical criticismDDC classification: 780.9 Summary: This work gathers two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers to full-scale critical essays. It considers contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and much more. Taruskin has an orginal voice and his essays are thought-provoking and readable.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work gathers two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers to full-scale critical essays. It considers contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and much more. Taruskin has an orginal voice and his essays are thought-provoking and readable.

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