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This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Philosophy and Music
- 2: The Aesthetic Appreciation of Music
- 3: Concatenationism, Architectonicism, and the Appreciation of Music
- 4: Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation
- 5: Musical Beauty
- 6: Values of Music
- 7: Shame in General and Shame in Music
- 8: Jazz Vocal Interpretation: A Philosophical Analysis
- 9: Popular Song as Moral Microcosm: Life Lessons from Jazz Standards
- 10: The Expressive Specificity of Jazz
- 11: Instrumentation and Improvisation
- 12: with Philip Alperson: What Is a Temporal Art?
- Index
About the author
Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and past president of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of three collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell University Press, 1990; 2nd edn OUP, 2010), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (Cornell University Press, 1996), and Contemplating Art (OUP, 2006); a monograph, Music in the Moment (Cornell University Press, 1998); the editor of Aesthetics and Ethics (CUP, 1998), Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (OUP, 2003), and Suffering Art Gladly (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013); and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (OUP, 2001) and Art and Pornography (OUP, 2012).
Summary
This volume presents a new collection of essays on music by Jerrold Levinson, one of the most prominent philosophers of art today. The essays are wide-ranging and represent some of the most stimulating work being done within analytic aesthetics. Three of the essays are previously unpublished, and four of them focus on music in the jazz tradition.
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This volume is a handsome collection of Jerrold Levinson's latest concerns about philosophy and music.
