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Musicians imagine music by means of functional models which determine certain aspects of the music while leaving others open. This gap between image and the exp
Music and the Racial Imagination
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relatio
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
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Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content. Both musicia
Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Language: en
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Authors: Lynette Bowring
Categories: History
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Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music
The Pleasures of the Imagination
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Authors: John Brewer
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The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and