Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... function of enhancing divine law to its personal function of expressing imaginatively the reality of human experience . The paradox of all art music , and particularly of Baroque music , is that while it aims at giving artistic ...
... function of enhancing divine law to its personal function of expressing imaginatively the reality of human experience . The paradox of all art music , and particularly of Baroque music , is that while it aims at giving artistic ...
Page 93
... function extracts music's magic but denies the ritual in the absence of a collective need . The Rock phenomenon has taken three courses . The first linked Rock with art music : as the need for the function disappeared , ritual gave way ...
... function extracts music's magic but denies the ritual in the absence of a collective need . The Rock phenomenon has taken three courses . The first linked Rock with art music : as the need for the function disappeared , ritual gave way ...
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... function of folk music was ritual and we have seen that an authentic folk music cannot function for a majority in a technocratic society : it either remains as a sterile ceremony or becomes another form of entertainment . The function ...
... function of folk music was ritual and we have seen that an authentic folk music cannot function for a majority in a technocratic society : it either remains as a sterile ceremony or becomes another form of entertainment . The function ...
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2100351 | 7 |
The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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