Edward W Said: Music at the Limits [2009] paperback AHIST unedited manuscript

unedited manuscript

heir to two worlds

Told in a splintered narrative style that allows glimpses into several points of view

The hijacker

Edward W Said: Music at the Limits [2009] paperback AHIST unedited manuscriptMusic at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays on music. Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and performers, Said analyses music's social and political contexts, and provides rich and often surprising assessments. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and