Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians - Bok av Joseph Straus - Inbunden
Operating largely within the world of European-American classical music, this book discusses the creative work of old musicians--composers, performers, listeners, and scholars--and how those forms of music-making are received and understood. Like everything else about old age, music-making is usually understood as a decline from a former height, a deficiency with respect to a youthful standard. Against this ageist mythology, this book argues that composing oldly, performing oldly, and listening oldly..