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OverviewWhy do we value music? Many people report that listening to music is one of life's most rewarding activities. In Critique of Pure Music, James O. Young seeks to explain why this is so. Formalists tell us that music is appreciated as pure, contentless form. On this view, listeners receive pleasure, or a pleasurable 'musical' emotion, when they explore the abstract patterns found in music. Music, formalists believe, does not arouse ordinary emotions such as joy, melancholy or fear, nor can it represent emotion or provide psychological insight. Young holds that formalists are wrong on all counts. Drawing upon the latest psychological research, he argues that music is expressive of emotion by resembling human expressive behaviour. By resembling human expressive behaviour, music is able to arouse ordinary emotions in listeners. This, in turn, makes possible the representation of emotion by music. The representation of emotion in music gives music the capacity to provide psychological insight-into the emotional lives of composers, and the emotional lives of individuals from a variety of times and places. And it is this capacity of music to provide psychological insight which explains a good deal of the value of music, both vocal and purely instrumental. Without it, music could not be experienced as profound. Philosophers, psychologists, musicians, musicologists, and music lovers will all find something of interest in this book. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James O. Young (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Victoria)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.406kg ISBN: 9780199682713ISBN 10: 0199682712 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 09 January 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Music and Expressiveness 2: Music and the Arousal of Emotion 3: The Content of Music 4: Music and Lyrics 5: The Value of Music BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationJames O. Young is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the author of Global Anti-realism (Avebury, 1995), Art and Knowledge (Routledge, 2001), Cultural Appropriation and the Arts (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and more than fifty articles in refereed journals. He is the editor of Aesthetics: The Critical Concepts (Routledge, 2005) and (with Conrad G. Brunk) The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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