Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western SocietyBalanced between the traditional and the postmodern, Subotnik (music, Brown U.) deftly and articulately manages to use the philosophies of Kant, Adorno, Bakhtin, and Derrida to review the music of Chopin, Mozart, and Stravinksy. Her discussion of the Magic Flute brings new rigor to the more usual romantic studies, and her exposition on Allan Bloom and Spike Lee in the final essay contextualizes the deconstructive critique she employs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Preface | ix |
Acknowledgments | xi |
Introduction | xix |
1 Whose Magic Flute? Intimations of Reality at the Gates of the Enlightenment | 1 |
2 How Could Chopins AMajor Prelude Be Deconstructed? | 39 |
A Critique of Schoenberg Adorno and Stravinsky | 148 |
4 The Closing of the American Dream? A Musical Perspective on Allan Bloom Spike Lee and Doing the Right Thing | 177 |
Notes | 213 |
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