Music at the Limits

Music at the Limits by Edward Said


ISBN
9780747597780
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

The first book to bring together three decades of Edward Said's essays and articles on music.

Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers, musicians, and performers - from Mozart to Alfred Brendel - Edward Said analyses music's social, political and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera.

This book offers both a fresh perspective on well-known pieces and a celebration of neglected works. Said laments the way in which opera superstars like Pavarotti have 'reduced opera performance to a minimum of intelligence and a maximum of overproduced noise.' He also reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; an opera based on the life of Malcolm X; the relationship between music and feminism; the brilliant Canadian pianist Glenn Gould; and the works of Bach, Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Pierre Boulez, and others.

Said wrote his incisive critiques as both an insider and an authority. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits preserves an important dimension of Said's brilliant intellectual work and cements his reputation as one of the most influential and groundbreaking writers of the twentieth century.
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