Parallels And Paradoxes: Explorations In Music And Society (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Inscribed by Edward W. Said
What happens when two of the twentieth century's most formidable intellectual and artistic minds sit down together to talk about music, politics, and the human condition? Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society chronicles a series of wide-ranging conversations between the legendary conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the towering Palestinian-American literary critic Edward W. Said — a dialogue that crackles with curiosity, candour, and profound mutual respect. Edited and prefaced by Ara Guzelimian, these exchanges range from the architecture of a Beethoven symphony to the politics of identity, from the responsibilities of the performing artist to the nature of musical interpretation, weaving together the worlds of classical music and contemporary social thought with remarkable fluency. The book stands as a testament to the transformative power of genuine intellectual friendship, presenting ideas that challenge comfortable assumptions about art, culture, nationalism, and the role of music in a fractured world. Said's incisive postcolonial lens meets Barenboim's deep, experiential understanding of the Western musical canon, and the friction — as much as the harmony — between their perspectives is what makes this volume so enduringly vital. Readers drawn to the intersection of aesthetics and politics will find themselves returning to these pages long after the final conversation ends, asking whether music truly can, as both men believed, serve as a bridge across the world's most intractable divides.
Author: Daniel Barenboim And Edward W. Said
Format: Hardback
Published: 2002, Pantheon Books
Genre: Music
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Inscribed by Edward W. Said
What happens when two of the twentieth century's most formidable intellectual and artistic minds sit down together to talk about music, politics, and the human condition? Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society chronicles a series of wide-ranging conversations between the legendary conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the towering Palestinian-American literary critic Edward W. Said — a dialogue that crackles with curiosity, candour, and profound mutual respect. Edited and prefaced by Ara Guzelimian, these exchanges range from the architecture of a Beethoven symphony to the politics of identity, from the responsibilities of the performing artist to the nature of musical interpretation, weaving together the worlds of classical music and contemporary social thought with remarkable fluency. The book stands as a testament to the transformative power of genuine intellectual friendship, presenting ideas that challenge comfortable assumptions about art, culture, nationalism, and the role of music in a fractured world. Said's incisive postcolonial lens meets Barenboim's deep, experiential understanding of the Western musical canon, and the friction — as much as the harmony — between their perspectives is what makes this volume so enduringly vital. Readers drawn to the intersection of aesthetics and politics will find themselves returning to these pages long after the final conversation ends, asking whether music truly can, as both men believed, serve as a bridge across the world's most intractable divides.