A gracefully polemical survey of "modern ideas and ideologies of
music," in the course of which the author touches upon many aspects
of music and musical life in the 20th century...Important and
consistently stimulating. -- David Hamilton "Los Angeles Times Book
Review"
A masterly exposition of what Kennan views as the pivotal
intellectual issues surrounding postwar musical studies--an
exposition that even his critics would readily concede him to be
uniquely qualified to undertake. Musicians of all sorts ought to
view this as a challenge...to give music the balanced critical
attention it deserves. -- Robert Winter "New York Review of
Books"
A timely proposal, and one well worth investigating for anyone who
is interested in music as a discipline...It represents a useful,
and indeed unique, attempt to map out in English the issues of our
day. -- Christopher Wintle "Times Literary Supplement"
Nothing less than a "Who's Who" of musicology, and a "What's What"
of theory, analysis, and musical philosophy. -- Erich Leinsdorf
"New York Times Book Review"
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