Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History

Introduction 1 1 The Realist Conception of Art 9 1 The Realist Conception of Art 12 2 The Materialist Conception of Music History 24 2 The Cultural Phase of Industry 32 3 Disenchantment and Musicological Method 46 1 Either History or Aesthetic Experience 47 2 Against Marxism 52 3 Against Positivism 56 4 Classical Musicology 61 4 Democratic Formalism 65 1 Failed Revolution and Liberalisation 67 2 Discursivity and the Authority of Musical Norms 72 3 Against the Rule of Sentiment 78 5 Style Criticism and Historical Materialism 83 1 Style and Its Discontents 84 2 Style and Spirit 88 3 Style and Technique 94 4 Style and Historical Materialism 100 6 Forces and Relations of Musical Production 105 1 Forces and Relations 106 2 Primitive Musical Communism 107 3 Minstrel and Chapel Singer 109 4 Thoroughbass and the Opera Industry 114 5 The Musician Entrepreneur 120 6 Organised Musical Labor 123 7 After Capitalism 127 Appendix: The Harmonic Ideology 131 Bibliography 145 Index 155