Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics

by Regula Burckhardt Qureshi (Editor)

Overview

Well-known contributors analyze the ways in which Marxist thought enters into music discourse. Exploring everything from Marxism in hip-hop to feudal properties of Hindustani music to revolutionary music of Central America, the essays in this book find surprising, paradigm-shifting revelations. This book will revolutionize the way music production and consumption is viewed. First published in 2002.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815337164
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/02/2002
Series:	Critical and Cultural Musicology
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI

Table of Contents

Part I Commodification and Music Scholarship; Chapter 1 MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP, MUSICAL PRACTICE, AND THE ACT OF LISTENING, DAVID GRAMIT; Chapter 2 Commodity-Form, Disavowal, and Practices of Music Theory, HENRY KLUMPENHOUWER; Part II Capitalism and Musical Poetics; Chapter 3 Modernity and Musical Structure Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and Its Successors, PETER MANUEL; Chapter 4 The Hip-Hop Sublime as a Form of Commodification, ADAM KRIMS; Part III Relations of Production; Chapter 5 Mode of Production and Musical Production: Is Hindustani Music Feudal?, REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI; Chapter 6 The Capitalization of Musical Production: The Conceptual and Spatial Development of London's Public Concerts, 1660-1750, ANTHONY A. OLMSTED; Chapter 7 Marx, Money, and Musicians, MARTIN STOKES; Part IV State and Revolutionary Marxism; Chapter 8 Musicological Memoirs on Marxism, IZALY ZEMTSOVSKY; Chapter 9 Making Marxist-Leninist Music in Uzbekistan, THEODORE LEVIN; Chapter 10 Central American Revolutionary Music, FRED JUDSON;