1st Edition

Music and Marx Ideas, Practice, Politics

Edited By Regula Burckhardt Qureshi Copyright 2003
    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    268 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Part I Commodification and Music Scholarship; Chapter 1 MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP, MUSICAL PRACTICE, AND THE ACT OF LISTENING, DAVID GRAMIT; Chapter 2 Commodity-Form, Disavowal, and Practices of Music Theory, HENRY KLUMPENHOUWER; Part II Capitalism and Musical Poetics; Chapter 3 Modernity and Musical Structure Neo-Marxist Perspectives on Song Form and Its Successors, PETER MANUEL; Chapter 4 The Hip-Hop Sublime as a Form of Commodification, ADAM KRIMS; Part III Relations of Production; Chapter 5 Mode of Production and Musical Production: Is Hindustani Music Feudal?, REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI; Chapter 6 The Capitalization of Musical Production: The Conceptual and Spatial Development of London’s Public Concerts, 1660–1750, ANTHONY A. OLMSTED; Chapter 7 Marx, Money, and Musicians, MARTIN STOKES; Part IV State and Revolutionary Marxism; Chapter 8 Musicological Memoirs on Marxism, IZALY ZEMTSOVSKY; Chapter 9 Making Marxist-Leninist Music in Uzbekistan, THEODORE LEVIN; Chapter 10 Central American Revolutionary Music, FRED JUDSON;

    Biography

    REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI