Cambridge University professor of music proposes a framework for thinking about all kinds of music--world, folk, classical, jazz, rock, and…
pop--by examining the personal, social, commercial, and cultural values music embodies. Challenges the reader to learn to understand music in historical context and question received musicological thought. 1998
Academic shares insights into the thinking and writings of the philosopher labeled the father of deconstruction. Discusses positive and hostile…
reactions to his work. Addresses the problem of language in the history of Western metaphysics, thought-provoking ideas on ethics and politics, and the significance of the structure of writing. 2011.