(“Hysterical Beethoven”) makes the provocative point that music scholars have tended to emphasize the masculine aspects of Beethoven's music-logic and order-while popular films have played upon the more feminine aspects-hysteria, exuberance, and violence. (“I Just Put a Drone”) explores the use of this work in Clockwork Orange in some depth in her discussion of the soundtrack to Die Hard. “Banality Triumphant: Iconographic Use of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Recent Films.”. For more on the uses of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in other films, see Wierzbicki James, Wierzbicki. Even more than the meticulous historiography presented by these musicologists, pop phenomena, such as the Beethoven films (1992–2003) about a shaggy St Bernard, counter modern myths about the sanctity of classical music and challenge entrenched beliefs that situate the classical tradition outside and immune to the influence of sociopolitical forces.Ħ. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Among the most cogent accounts of the evolution of postmodernism as a locus of inquiry is Harvey David, Harvey.

Many influential writers, including Hassan, Lyotard, Derrida, and Jameson, have been formulating various theories on this topic since the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scholars in other humanistic disciplines have been grappling with and addressing issues surrounding postmodernism for many decades. gives examples of postmodern music that exhibit hybrid sensibilities, but his article focuses primarily on production, with little consideration of reception or consumption. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, Berkeley, CA: U of California P. Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, New York: Routledge. Emerging interest in postmodernism among music scholars is evidenced by the recent publication of books and articles on the subject, the most comprehensive of which are Lochhead and Auner's Judy, Lochhead, Auner, Joseph and eds. Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. Beethoven wrote this piece for Therese Malfatti, to whom he had proposed marriage in 1810. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP. See, for example, Bourdieu Pierre, Bourdieu. One can trace a similar process of cultural segmentation in Europe, although the distinctions are somewhat different in degree and in kind.

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. The Closing of the American Mind, New York: Simon & Schuster. Two of the more outspoken and publicized figures complaining about the “dumbing down of culture” are Bloom Allan, Bloom.

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