Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Music and Capitalism: Melody, Harmony and Rhythm in the Modern World

Music and Capitalism: Melody, Harmony and Rhythm in the Modern World

Sagall, Sabby

Paperback

Series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice

General MusicGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1349705268
ISBN13: 9781349705269
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 29 2022
Pages: 359
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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 seventeenth century until the Second World War.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Sagall, Sabby

View All

Also in

General Political Science

View All