The Oxford History of Western Music - Richard Taruskin
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The history of "history"--our changing perspectives on the act of narrating and trying to "recapture" the past--encompasses the most profound seismic shifts in modern consciousness. Once seemingly commonsensical, the science-aspiring ambition of historiography to recount the past "as it actually was" (to borrow Leopold von Ranke's famously misunderstood phase) now betrays anachronistic naivete, if not a dangerous arrogance masquerading as objectivity. And the business of cultural history provides a particularly fascinating--and contentious--index to the larger issues at stake. The very urgency of the debate over "how" to tell the story (and indeed what the story is) continues to intensify in proportion to the uncertainty of our times. Considering its official title (bearing an impressive imprimatur from Oxford University Press, the vanguard of scholarly reference works), Richard Taruskin's grand opus might appear at first glance to eschew the more-heated arenas of debate involving cultural history. Quite the ...
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2005Uitgever: Oxford University Press6 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0195222725ISBN-13: 9780195222722Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2005, cloth hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Taruskin, Richard] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: The Oxford History of Western Music, Vol. 3: The Nineteenth century]
