Music and capitalism : melody, harmony, and rhythm in the modern world / Sabby Sagall.
This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through its impact on our emotional life. T...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Critical political theory and radical practice.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| Summary: | This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produced some characteristic style of music. Music, like the other arts, tells us truths about the world through its impact on our emotional life. There is a structural correspondence between society and music. The emergence of 'modern art music' and its stylistic changes since the rise of capitalist social relations reflect the development of capitalist society since the decline of European feudalism. The leading composers of the different eras expressed in music the aspirations of the dominant or aspiring social classes. Changes in musical style not only reflect but in turn help to shape changes in society. This book analyses the stylistic changes in music from the emergence of tonality in the late 17th century until the Second World War. Sabby Sagall is former Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London, UK. He writes regularly for the Socialist Review and Socialist Worker, and is the author of Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism, and Genocide (2013). |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 1137520949 9781137520944 1349705268 9781349705269 1137520957 9781137520951 |