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:	9781138870390
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/27/2015
Series:	Critical and Cultural Musicology
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI

Table of Contents

Foreword, Jacques Attali

Introduction: Thinking Music, Thinking Marx, Regula Burckhardt Quershi
I. Commodification
1. Music Scholarship, Music Practice, and the Act of Listening, David Gramit
2. Commodity-Structure, Disavowal, and Practices of Music Theory, Henry Klumpenhouwer
II. Capitalism and Musical Poetics
3. Modernity and Musical Structure: Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and Its Successors, Peter Manuel
4. The Hip-Hop Sublime as a Form of Commodification, Adam Krims
III. Relations of Production
5. Mode of Production and Musical Production: Is Hindustani Music Feudal? Regula Burckhardt Quershi
6. The Capitalization of Musical Production: The Conceptual and Spatial Development of London's Public, 1660-1750, Anthony Olmsted
7. Marx, Music, and Money, Martin Stokes
IV. State and Revolutionary Marxism
8. Musicological Memoirs on Marxism, Izaly Zemtsovsky
9. Making Marxist-Leninist Music in Uzbekistan, Theodore Levin
10. Central American Revolutionary Music, Fred Jackson
Afterward, Stephen Blum