| Portion of title |
How I learned to stop worrying and love Led Zeppelin |
| Series |
Tracking pop
Tracking pop. ^A717349
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| Contents |
Aesthetics without elitism. Separating aesthetics from art ; Clearing space for aesthetic value ; Aesthetic principles and aesthetic properties -- The aesthetic value of the popular. Appreciating, valuing, and evaluating music ; The ideas of hearing and listening -- Listening as engagement with symbols. Music's worldly uses ; Taste and musical identity. |
| Abstract |
It has long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? In Listening to Popular Music, award-winning popular music scholar Theodore Gracyk argues that aesthetic value is just as important in popular listening as it is with serious music. And we don't have to treat popular music as art in order to recognize its worth. Aesthetic values are realized differently in different musical styles, and each requires listening skills that people must learn. Boldly merging insights from popular music studies, aesthetic theory, cognitive science, psychology, identity theory, and cultural studies, Gracyk crafts an innovative study that argues that understanding aesthetic value is crucial to the enjoyment of all forms of music. Listening to Popular Music thus offers a new, general framework for understanding what it means to appreciate music, showing that an informed preference for popular music is a response to real values of the music, including aesthetic values. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006032063 |
| ISBN | 9780472099832 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0472099833 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780472069835 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0472069837 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
