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Bloomsbury, 2008. Softcover. Very Good. Music at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays on music. Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and performers, Said analyses music's social and political contexts, and provides rich and often surprising assessments. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits reinforces Said's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.pp. 288 #300122""Said (1935-2003), best known for his seminal Orientalism and the author of several books on the Middle East, was not just a literary scholar of high repute but also an acute observer of the classical music scene. This collection contains essays dating from the 1980s that Said wrote mostly as music critic for the Nation ""(Tanning to sides) Elizabeth's Bookshops have…
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- Author Edward Said
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date 2009
- ISBN 9780747598749
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