The Value of Popular Music An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics
In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevat
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The Value of Popular Music
Alison Stone
The Value of Popular Music An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics
Alison Stone Lancaster University Lancaster, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-46543-2 ISBN 978-3-319-46544-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46544-9
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Quotations from Michaels (2012), Morley (2014), Savage (2008), Simpson (2013) and Simpson (2014) are reproduced courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd., under Guardian Open License terms. The quotation from Katy Guest in The Independent, 29 July 2012, is reproduced by permission of the Evening Standard. COLLECTED POEMS by Rimbaud, translated by Sorrell (2009), 8 lines from p. 127, are reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people have generously helped me as I wrote this book. Several people read drafts of the material at various stages. They include Alexander Bird, Emily Brady, James Connelly, Dan DeNicola, Robin Downie, Andy Hamilton, Susanne Hermann-Sinai, Max Paddison, Chris Partridge, Richard Stopford, and Bob Stern, as well as anonymous readers. My colleague Brian Garvey deserves particular thanks for reading the whole book in draft form and providing many detailed and helpful comments and suggestions. I thank Lancaster University both for providing the sabbatical leave during which I did much of the writing and for funding research assistance through the Research Incentivisation Fund within my department, Politics, Philosophy, and Religion. This paid for Richard Leadbeater to read the whole draft manuscript with a musicologist’s e
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