Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History

Download or read book Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History written by Stephan Hammel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of historical materialism to the musicological project. It interrogates the history of encounters between Marxism and music studies — both within and without the Soviet sphere — before staging the missed encounter between classical musicology and Second International Marxism. It concludes with a framework for understanding style history in terms of changes in the forces and relations of musical production.