The Value of Popular Music

The Value of Popular Music An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics

Hardback (28 Dec 2016) | German

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-'n'-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal. Stone also argues that popular music's stress on materiality gives it aesthetic value, drawing on ideas from the post-Kantian tradition in aesthetics by Hegel, Adorno, and others. She shows that popular music gives importance to materiality in its typical structure: in how music of this type handles the relations between matter and form, the relations between sounds and words, and in how it deals with rhythm, meaning, and emotional expression. Extensive use is made of musical examples from a wide range of popular music genres. This book is distinctive in that it defends popular music on philosophical grounds, particularly informed by the continental tradition in philosophy.

Book information

ISBN: 9783319465432
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.64
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: German
Weight: 5308g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 26mm