Music at the Limits: Three Decades of Essays and Articles on Music

Music at the Limits: Three Decades of Essays and Articles on Music

Edward W.Said

Bloomsbury

2008

RM57.95

Synopsis:

Music at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. said's essays on music. Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and perdormers, said analyses music's social and political context's, and provides rich and often surprising assessment. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits reinforces Said's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.