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Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical  ~ Julian Johnson is a lecturer in music at the University of Oxford he has also written Classical Music A Beginners Guide Beginners Guide OneworldMahlers Voices Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies and Webern and the Transformation of Nature
Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical  ~ Johnson argues against the currently popular view that cultures and cultural choices are relative He argues that far from cultural choices being matters of mere preference some cultural choices are more valuable than others More specifically he argues that classical music has more cultural value than pop music
Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical  ~ This book considers the value of classical music in contemporary society arguing that it remains distinctive because it w  More In the last decades most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between “high” and “low” art is an artificial one that Beethovens Ninth and Blue Suede Shoes are equally valuable as cultural texts
Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical Value ~ Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical Value By Julian Johnson Oxford Oxford University Press 2002 140 p 3995 ISBN 0195 1468 16 E ven the optimists among us have to acknowledge that the classical music industry is currently in major turmoil We hear about it every day from the cuts to elementary school
Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical  ~ This book considers the value of classical music in contemporary society arguing that it remains distinctive because it works in quite different ways to most of the other music that surrounds us This intellectually sophisticated yet accessible book offers a new and balanced defense of the specific values of classical music in contemporary culture
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Who needs classical music  cultural choice and musical  ~ Who Needs Classical Music considers the value of classical music in contemporary society arguing that it remains distinctive because it works in different ways to the other music that surrounds Challenging assumptions about the relativism of cultural judgements the book aims to restore some types of music to the status of aesthetic text
Project MUSE  Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice  ~ Cultural Choice and Musical Value British musicologist and composer Julian Johnson defends the value of classical music in a commercialized culture fixated on the immediate gratification of popular music At 130 pages divided into six chapters Johnson’s book is a reasonably accessible and engaging presentation of his topic
Who Needs Classical Music Cultural Choice and Musical  ~ Cultural Choice and Musical Value  Synopsis  During the last several decades most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between high and low art is an artificial one that Beethovens Ninth and Blue Suede Shoes are equally valuable as cultural texts
Who Needs Classical Music  Hardcover  Julian Johnson  ~ Author Information  Julian Johnson was educated at the University of Cambridge Dartington College of the Arts and the University of Sussex and is currently a lecturer in Music at Oxford University The author of Webern and the Transformation of Nature Johnson is well known for his work on music aesthetics and the relation of music to society