The value of popular music : an approach from post-Kantian aesthetics / Alison Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Alison, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 294 pages : music ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

"In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western evaluation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music's stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing on ideas from the post-Kantian tradition in aesthetics by Hegel, Adorno, and others. She shows that popular music gives importance to materiality in its typical structure: in how music of this type handles the relations between matter and form, the relations between sounds and words, and how it deals with rhythm, meaning, and emotion expression. This book is distinctive in that it defends popular music on philosophical grounds, particularly informed by the continental tradition in philosophy"--Back cover.

Contents:

Evaluation, aesthetics, and the unity of popular music

Tracking popular music history with an aesthetic map

Adorno and popular music

Matter and form in popular music

Rhythm, energy, and the body

Meaning and affect in popular music

Meaning in sounds and words

Conclusion : popular music, aesthetic vlue, and materiality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274), discography (pages 275-277), and index.

ISBN:

9783319465432

3319465430

OCLC:

957140767

Publisher Number:

99971067839