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For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices. Songs are structures that serve as the scaffolding for meaning production, influenced by the performance decisions of the performer and their intentions. Arguing against prevailing theories of meaning that ignore the power of the performance, Gracyk champions the contextual releva...

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Opinionated and example-filled, this book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as possible to general readers who have no background in philosophy.

It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popular music scholar, this book argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with "serious" music.

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This is a guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over 50 entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six sections.

As someone who feels the emotional power of rock and who writes about it as an art form, Theodore Gracyk has been praised for launching "plainspoken arguments destined to change the future of rock and roll" (Publishers Weekly). In I Wanna Be Me, his second book about the music he cares so much about, Gracyk grapples with the ways that rock shapes -- limits and expands -- our notions of who we can be in the world.Gracyk sees rock as a mass art,...

Opinionated and example-filled, this extremely concise and accessible book provides a survey of some fundamental and longstanding debates about the nature of music. The central arguments and ideas of historical and contemporary philosophers are presented with the goal of making them as accessible as possible to general readers who have no background in philosophy. The emphasis is on instrumental music, but examples are drawn from many cultures...

The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standard topics are balanced by topics of interest to today's students, including creativity, authenticity, cultural appropriation, and the distinction between popular and fine art. Other topics include emotive expression, pictorial representation, definitional strategies, and artistic value. Presupposing...

As someone who feels the emotional power of rock and who writes about it as an art form, Theodore Gracyk has been praised for launching "plainspoken arguments destined to change the future of rock and roll" (Publishers Weekly). In I Wanna Be Me, his second book about the music he cares so much about, Gracyk grapples with the ways that rock shapes -- limits and expands -- our notions of who we can be in the world.Gracyk sees rock as a mass art,...

Theodore Gracyk claims that what distinguishes rock from other performance styles is how it is mediated by technology. Using interviews, observations and comparisons, he takes up the myths and stereotypes about rock and investigates the orthodoxy of distinctions between "serious" and "popular" art.

This is a guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Over 50 entries by an international team of contributors are organised into six sections.

Gracyk addresses a difficult and too-long-overlooked subject--that is, defining a comprehensible rock aesthetic--with consistent intelligence, depth, and insight. His knowledge of aesthetics, musicology, and the history of rock & roll is up to the ambitious task he sets himself."--Anthony DeCurtis, author of "Rocking My Life Away

It's long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? Written by an award-winning popular music scholar, this book argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with "serious" music.