{"product_id":"making-sense-of-music-9780197779767","title":"Making Sense of Music","description":"One of the best-known prose stylists in contemporary musicology, Susan McClary brings together a fascinating set of essays in \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense of Music\u003c\/em\u003e that focus on temporality and the body as ways of understanding music. Prefaced by a Foreword from celebrated theatre director Peter Sellars, the chapters engage variously with ribald songs of the Renaissance, the performance of Bach fugues, time-bending in seventeenth-century keyboard works, Grieg's Norwegian swerve, Florence Price's reclaiming of the spiritual, erotic scenarios in Mahler, representations of motherhood in Kaija Saariaho's operas, and queer elements in classical and popular repertories. McClary grounds her readings within the specifics of historical time and place, even as she shows how the music itself relies on gesture and the body. In sum, this book demonstrates in case studies taken from a wide variety of practices how music draws upon and shapes human subjective experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSusan McClary \u003c\/strong\u003e(Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University; Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCLA) specializes in the cultural criticism of music. Her books include \u003cem\u003eFeminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eGeorges Bizet: Carmen\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eConventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eModal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eReading Music; Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStructures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Expressive Culture\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music\u003c\/em\u003e. She previously taught at University of Minnesota, McGill, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. McClary received a MacArthur Foundation \"Genius\" Fellowship in 1995, and her work has been translated into at least twenty languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298468725010,"sku":"9780197779767","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d66df2ae-1f1e-4f0f-8256-5c05d4222a6d.jpg?v=1747822186","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/making-sense-of-music-9780197779767","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}