Representations: Music

Music

What is at stake in music as a cultural practice? The musical artifacts of a given historical place or time provide evidence for prevailing beliefs and ideologies, and for the auditory elements at play in the development of cultural expression. The essays here discuss genres and individual works from literary, anthropological, sociological, philosophical, and political perspectives.

Katherine Bergeron, "A Bugle, A Bell, A Stroke of the Tongue: Rethinking Music in Modern French Verse," Spring 2004, 86: 53-72.

Katherine Bergeron, ed, Music, Rhythm, Language, special issue, Spring 2004, number 86.

Brent Hayes Edwards, "The Literary Ellington," Winter 2002, 77: 1-29.

William Fitzgerald, "The Questionability of Music," Spring 1994, 46: 121-47.

Lydia Goehr, "Radical Modernism and the Failure of Style: Philosophical Reflections on Maeterlinck-Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande," Spring 2001, 74: 55-82.

David E. James, "Rock and Roll in Representations of the Invasion of Vietnam," Winter 1990, 29: 78-98.

Jeffrey Kallberg, "The Harmony of the Tea Table: Gender and Ideology in the Piano Nocturne," Summer 1992, 39: 102-33.

Joseph Kerman, "Representing a Relationship: Notes on a Beethoven Concerto," Summer 1992, 39: 80-101.

Eric Lott, "Love and Theft: The Racial Unconscious of Blackface Minstrelsy," Summer 1992, 39: 23-50.

Nathaniel Mackey, "Other: From Noun to Verb," Summer 1992, 39: 51-70.

Greil Marcus, "Crank Prophet Bestride America, Grinning: The Case of David Thomas," Fall 2003, 84: 123-38.

Greil Marcus, "Dock Boggs in Thomas Jefferson's Virginia," Spring 1997, 58: 1-23.

Music, Rhythm, Language, special issue, Spring 2004, number 86.

Susan Stewart, "The Ballad in Wuthering Heights," Spring 2004, 86: 175-197.

Downing A. Thomas, "Architectural Visions of Lyric Theater and Spectatorship in Late-Eighteenth-Century France,” Fall 1995, 52: 52-75.

Bryan Wagner, "Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupé," Fall 2005, 92: 117-51.