The study of music in its social context has expanded rapidly over the last 15 years, yet little of this work discusses the music itself: the processes, textures and structures of sound which so powerfully affects us as individuals. "Music as Social Text" begins by analyzing the forces which have made this kind of discussion difficult within the intellectual tradition of the western world. The book argues that a society in which reality is grasped in an overwhelmingly visual way has difficulty with expression that is non-designative in its use of sound.
- ISBN10 0745608256
- ISBN13 9780745608259
- Publish Date 31 January 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Polity Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 250
- Language English