Music and Ideology: Resisting the Aesthetic

This collection of essays, which reflects the views of music scholars who bring postmodern critical theory to bear on the theory and analysis of music, is long overdue. The essayists in this volume are not fixated on aesthetics; rather, they focus on the social and discursive concerns that had previously been considered marginal to their subject. 'Music/Ideology' is a response to the question: Must the practice of music analysis and music theory always reinscribe the ideology of aesthetic a...