How Long to Read Music, Politics, and the Academy

How Long Does it Take to Read Music, Politics, and the Academy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Music, Politics, and the Academy by Pieter C. van den Toorn

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Advocates of "new musicology" claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. Pieter C. van den Toorn challenges those claims, asking why cultural, sociopolitical, or gender-studies approaches to music should be deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact. Why should music analysis be thought incapable of serving larger aesthetic ends? Van den Toorn confronts Susan McClary, Leo Treitler, and Joseph Kerman in particular, arguing that hands-on music analysis can penetrate the complexity of music and speak to our experience of it. He criticizes new musicologists for retreating from issues of musical immediacy by focusing on cultural issues. In later chapters van den Toorn defends Schenkerian methods and demonstrates the usefulness of technical analysis in the appreciation of Beethoven, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky.

How long is Music, Politics, and the Academy?

Music, Politics, and the Academy by Pieter C. van den Toorn is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Music, Politics, and the Academy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Music, Politics, and the Academy aloud.

What Reading Level is Music, Politics, and the Academy?

Music, Politics, and the Academy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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