Music at the Limits
"Music at the Limits" is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and o...
"Music at the Limits" is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera. "Music at the Limits" offers both a fresh perspective on canonical pieces and a celebration of neglected works by contemporary composers. Said faults the Metropolitan Opera in New York for being too conservative and laments the way in which opera superstars like Pavarotti have "reduced opera performance to a minimum of intelligence and a maximum of overproduced noise." He also reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the worrisome trend of proliferating music festivals; an opera based on the life of Malcolm X; the relationship between music and feminism; the pianist Glenn Gould; and the works of Mozart, Bach, Richard Strauss, and others. Said wrote his incisive critiques as both an insider and an authority. He saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. Eloquent and surprising, "Music at the Limits" preserves an important dimension of Said's brilliant intellectual work and cements his reputation as one of the most influential and groundbreaking scholars of the twentieth century.
作者：
萨义德（Edward W. Said, 1935—2003），美国文学理论家与批评家，哥伦比亚大学英国文学与比较文学教授，其撰文与观点屡见于各大报纸杂志，在当今世界具有广泛世界影响力。为《国家民族政坛杂志》撰写音乐专栏多年。代表作有：《东方学》（Orientalism）《文化与帝国主义》（Culture and Imperialism）《从奥斯陆到伊拉克以及路线图》（From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map）《权力、政治与文化》（Power, Politics, and Culture）《平行与矛盾》（Parallels and Paradoxes，与巴伦博伊姆合著）以及《论晚期风格》（On Late Style）。
译者：
庄加逊，毕业于上海交通大学，外国文艺理论硕士，翻译、作家。译作包括《古尔德读本》(The ...
作者：
萨义德（Edward W. Said, 1935—2003），美国文学理论家与批评家，哥伦比亚大学英国文学与比较文学教授，其撰文与观点屡见于各大报纸杂志，在当今世界具有广泛世界影响力。为《国家民族政坛杂志》撰写音乐专栏多年。代表作有：《东方学》（Orientalism）《文化与帝国主义》（Culture and Imperialism）《从奥斯陆到伊拉克以及路线图》（From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map）《权力、政治与文化》（Power, Politics, and Culture）《平行与矛盾》（Parallels and Paradoxes，与巴伦博伊姆合著）以及《论晚期风格》（On Late Style）。
译者：
庄加逊，毕业于上海交通大学，外国文艺理论硕士，翻译、作家。译作包括《古尔德读本》(The Glenn Gould Reader，格伦· 古尔德著)、《为什么是马勒？》（Why Mahler?，诺曼· 莱布雷希特[Norman Lebrecht] 著）、《亲爱的阿尔玛》（Gustav Mahler: Letters To His Wife，马勒著，与曹利群合译）等。编译有《雅纳切克私信集》（莱奥什•雅纳切克[Leos Janacek] 著）。著有《陌上花来：回归与远行》。