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Classical Music in a Changing Culture

Essays from The American Record Guide

Donald Vroon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2014
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3454-3 (ISBN)

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Founded in 1935, The American Record Guide is America's oldest classical music review magazine. In 1987, when Donald Vroon assumed its editorship, he took on the Herculean task of writing editorials on a vast array of subjects, amassing a wealth of commentary and criticism on not only the foibles and failings, but glimmers of light in American culture. A staunch defender of the highbrow pleasures of good music composed, played, and heard with intelligence, Vroon takes no prisoners in assessing the challenges and failures and possible successes that confront America’s future as a nation of music listeners.

In Classical Music in a Changing Culture: Essays from The American Record Guide, Vroon delves into a variety of topics: orchestra finances, contemporary music, classical music marketing, attracting young crowds, musical aesthetics, the future of classical music, the sale and distribution of music in the modern era; the decline of American culture and its causes; the role of misguided ideologies that affect American music, from political correctness to multiculturalism to period performance practice, and the true richness of our music and its subculture. As Vroon argues, since all criticism is cultural criticism, music criticism in the broadest sense—from its composition to its distribution to its reception—is a window onto broader culture issues.

Classical Music in a Changing Culture should appeal to anyone serious about classical music and worried about its increasing marginalization in our contemporary culture. These essays are not written for specialists but for thinking readers who love music and care about its place in our lives.

Donald Vroon has served as editor of The American Record Guide since 1987, and he has authored many hundreds of essays and reviews that have been published in its pages. He has served as a judge for piano competitions and as a guest lecturer for orchestra executives.

Introduction
Essay 1: Elitism
Essay 2: Education & Culture
Essay 3: Don’t Educate Us; Entertain Us
Essay 4: Fun
Essay 5: Fads and Trends
Essay 6: The Romantic Art
Essay 7: Orchestra Finances
Essay 8: The New and News
Essay 9: Contemporary Music
Essay 10: Airheads
Essay 11: Marketing and Image
Essay 12: Marketing Idiocy
Essay 13: Marketing and Its Discontents
Essay 14: Seeking Out the Best Things in Life
Essay 15: Multiculturalism
Essay 16: Later: Black Musicians and Marketing
Essay 17: Attracting a Young Crowd
Essay 18: The Land of the Obvious
Essay 19: On Spiritual Matters
Essay 20:Attentiveness and Judgment
Essay 21: Attentiveness II
Essay 22: Absorption
Essay 23: Feeling
Essay 24: Does Quality Have a Future
Essay 25: Performance Practice
Essay 26: Aesthetics and Criticism
Essay 27: PPP and True Authenticity
Essay 28: PPP II
Essay 29: Cultural Suicide
Essay 30: Cultural Suicide 2
Essay 31: The Golden Age
Essay 32: The Nostalgia Trap
Essay 33: Surtitles
Essay 34: The Death of Service
Essay 35: Distribution
Essay 36: Browsing
Essay 37: Is the Internet the End of Records?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.9.2014
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 234 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	1-4422-3454-7 / 1442234547
ISBN-13	978-1-4422-3454-3 / 9781442234543
Zustand	Neuware