Author: Lawrence Kramer

In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music....

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Exp...

Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Exp...

Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music,...

Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music,...

This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrenc...

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music--the "classical" music compo...

"Interpreting Music" is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both sen...

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's m...

Ranging widely over classical music, jazz, popular music, and film and television music, Musical Meaning uncovers the historical importance of aski...

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, play...