Lawrence Kramer is Professor of English and Music at Fordham University and the coeditor of 19th Century Music. He is author of six books, including After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture (California 1997), Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (California 1995), and Music as Cultural Practice, 1800–1900 (California 1990).
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Lawrence Kramer: Musical Meaning
How have romantic narratives involving Beethoven’s ’Moonlight’ Sonata affected how we hear this famous piece? How does John Coltrane’s African American identity affect the way we hear him perform a r …
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Lawrence Kramer: Why Classical Music Still Matters
’What can be done about the state of classical music?’ Lawrence Kramer asks in this elegant, sharply observed, and beautifully written extended essay. Classical music, whose demise has been predicted …
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Lawrence Kramer & Richard Leppert: Beyond the Soundtrack
This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of fil …
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Lawrence Kramer: Opera and Modern Culture
In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music’s most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of …
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Lawrence Kramer: Interpreting Music
Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—’interpreting music’ in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades …
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Lawrence Kramer: Expression and Truth
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and propose …
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Lawrence Kramer: The Thought of Music
What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions—questions especially comp …
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Lawrence Kramer: The Hum of the World
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume i …
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Keith Chapin & Lawrence Kramer: Musical Meaning and Human Values
Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection …
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Lawrence Kramer: Walt Whitman and Modern Music
Walt Whitman’s poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the tr …
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Lawrence Kramer: Walt Whitman and Modern Music
Walt Whitman’s poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the tr …
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Tina Frühauf: Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts
Covering classical to popular to neo-traditional musics, the topics covered in Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts mirror the eclectic and diverse nature of the postwar era. Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts c …
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Keith Chapin & Lawrence Kramer: Musical Meaning and Human Values
Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection …
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Lawrence Kramer: Music and the Forms of Life
Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and mu …
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Lola Ridge: The Ghetto, and Other Poems
At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Si …
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Lola Ridge: The Ghetto, and Other Poems
At last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York’s Lower East Si …
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Lawrence Kramer: Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the ’classical’ music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centur …
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Rolf J. Goebel: A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings . As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound stud …
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Rolf J. Goebel: Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures
Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound studie …
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Lawrence Kramer: Experiencing Sound
From the winds of Mars to a baby’s first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundam …
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