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• Title : Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value
• Author : Julian Johnson
• Rating : 4.72 (265 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-3-30
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 160 Pages
• Asin : 0199755426
• Language : English

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It is distinguished by a self-conscious attention to its own materials and their formal patterning. The paperback edition includes a new preface from the author, bringing his argument up to date. Challenging the many cultural critics who contend that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable, Julian Johnson counters that music is more than just "a matter of taste." Music can provide entertainment or simply serve as background noise. Who Needs Classical Music? will stimulate readers to reflect on their own investment (or lack of it) in music and art of all kinds.. Classical music, he suggests, is shaped by its claim to function as art. Far from being irrelevant today, Johnson argues, classical music continues to offer rich and engaging insights into our experience of modern life. Praised in The Economist as "heartfelt and finely reasonedwise, perceptive and inspiring," Who Needs Classical M

Nothing is more relevant to classical music devotees."--American Record Guide"A heartfelt and finely reasoned appeal.wise, perceptive and inspiring book."--The Economist"A soberly argued defense of classical tradition as uniquely valuable in its own right, and hence worth sustaining as a cultural option open to all. "You will often cheer out loud! I didmore profound than can be communicated in a book review. Like all my favorite books, I will read it again and again. Who Needs Classical Music? is neither a last-ditch lament nor an aggressive counter-attack.Every page -at times, every sentence-is loaded with implications for further thought deserves the widest attention." --BBC online"A sophisticated yet accessible defense of classical music's value."--Choice. I read this twice

Julian Johnson is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for "outstanding contributions to musicology."