{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/9780520933644-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520933644-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174264,"journal":{"name":"Why Classical Music Still Matters","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130987717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Lieu Of A Preface","authors":"L. Kramer","doi":"10.1525/9780520933644-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520933644-001","url":null,"abstract":"What can be done about the state of classical music? In recent years it has sharply declined in popularity and cultural authority; the prospect of its slow disappearance is no longer unthinkable. The music has had advocates, of course, some of them eloquent, but few have asked forthrightly why and how classical music should still matter. That is exactly what this book does. Without pretension or mystification, Why Classical Music Still Matters looks for answers that can appeal both to lovers of this music and to skeptics. It describes the sources of the music’s power in a wide variety of settings, from concert performance to film and television, from everyday life to the historical trauma of September 11. It affirms the value of classical music by revealing what its values are: the beliefs, attitudes, and meanings that the music has supported in the past and can support into the future. It shows the traits that make this music distinctive and that offer rich rewards to anyone willing to listen.","PeriodicalId":174264,"journal":{"name":"Why Classical Music Still Matters","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122725557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/9780520933644-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520933644-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174264,"journal":{"name":"Why Classical Music Still Matters","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123223774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}