It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read From Handel to Hendrix by Michael Chanan
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In his new book, Michael Chanan examines the composer as a public figure in the light of Habermas's study of the transformation of the public sphere. Taking his cue from the German philosopher's remarks about the bourgeois concert audience, the emergence of criticism and the development of autonomous music, Chanan examines the fate of the composer through successive incarnations, from Handel, Bach and Rousseau in the eighteenth century to contrasting examples such as Kurt Weill and Duke Ellington, or John Cage and Pierre Boulez, in the twentieth. Calling on recent work in feminist and gay...
From Handel to Hendrix by Michael Chanan is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read From Handel to Hendrix aloud.
From Handel to Hendrix is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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