The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volum
"In this pathbreaking new book, Lawrence Kramer extends the theoretical and scholarly frontiers of musicology with every chapter, each of which explores a different case study in depth. In short, [he]
Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study of music with social and cultural issues. This accessible and eloquently written
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general?The Thought of Music, completing a trilogy on musical understanding with Interpreting Music and Exp
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expr
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and propose
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and propose
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general?The Thought of Music, completing a trilogy on musical understanding with Interpreting Music and Exp
In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of
Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfullyu"interpreting music" in both senses of the phrase. Synthesizing and advancing two decades
"What can be done about the state of classical music?" Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted
This volume collects twenty of Lawrence Kramer’s seminal writings--some significantly revised for republication--on art song (especially Lieder), opera, and word-music relationships. Topics include t
"Clear, trenchant, delightfully opinionated, and thick with virtuosic word play. This book will not disappoint."--Nicholas Cook, author of The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-
Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music, and to what is our response responsible? The essays
Hart Crane's long poem 77ie Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics---a charge that became conventional wisdo
