Description Richard Taruskin \'s sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of Music studies, including historiography and criticism, representation and aesthetics, musical and professional politics, and the sociology of taste.
Cursed Questions , invoking a famous catchphrase from Russian intellectual history, grapples wit.
Description Richard Taruskin \'s sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of Music studies, including historiography and criticism, representation and aesthetics, musical and professional politics, and the sociology of taste