Grab Your Edition Reading Music: Selected Essays Illustrated By Susan McClary Disseminated As Volume

This outstanding collection of Susan McClary's work exemplifies her contribution to a bridging of the gap between historical context, culture and musical practice.
The selection includes essays which have had a major impact on the field and others which are less known and reproduced here from hardtofind sources.
The volume is divided into four parts: Interpretation and Polemics, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Music, and Early Music, Each of the essays treats music as cultural text and has a strong interdisciplinary appeal, Together with the autobiographical introduction they will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the life and times of a renegade musicologist.
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