{"product_id":"musical-elaborations-isbn-9780593687895","title":"Musical Elaborations","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a sweeping work of musical criticism, examining the distance between the performer and their audience\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Not since Virgil Thomson have we had a music critic with as wide ranging a view as Edward Said.\"—Studs Terkel\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderful personal thoughts on music and musicians . . . Mr. Said is marvelous.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, \u003ci\u003eMusical Elaborations\u003c\/i\u003e examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss.\u003cb\u003eEDWARD W. SAID\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he began teaching at Columbia University, where he was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of twenty-two books which have been translated into thirty-five languages, including \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e (1978); \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Palestine\u003c\/i\u003e (1979); \u003ci\u003eCovering Islam\u003c\/i\u003e (1980); \u003ci\u003eThe World, the Text, and the Critic\u003c\/i\u003e (1983); \u003ci\u003eCulture and Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); \u003ci\u003ePeace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East Peace Process\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and \u003ci\u003eOut of Place: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). He died in 2003 in New York City.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233411379429,"sku":"NP9780593687895","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593687895.jpg?v=1767733199","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/musical-elaborations-isbn-9780593687895","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}