MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical

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The modern Indian classical and folk fusion music has become an important musical trend shaped by the increased globalization, the digital spreading, and the transnational artistic interaction. Although these fusion practices are commonly loosely grouped into the term of a world music, the available literature rarely constructs systemic frameworks to examine the manner in which particular global musical influences i…

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Music and noise seem to be mutually exclusive. Music is generally considered as an ordered arrangement of sounds pleasing to the ear and noise as its opposite: chaotic, ugly, aggressive, sometimes even deafening. When presented in a musical context, noise can thus act as a tool to express resistance to predominant cultural values, to society or to socioeconomic structures (including those of the music industry). The…

Full text · Open Library

"What is the difference between a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the symphony itself? What does it mean for musicians to be faithful to the works they perform? To answer such questions, Lydia Goehr combines philosophical and historical methods of enquiry. Finding Anglo-American philosophy inadequate for the task, she shows that a historical perspective is indispensable to a full understanding of music…

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