Rethinking Rationalisation: Evolutionism and Imperialism in Max Weber's Discourse on Music.

Rethinking Rationalisation: Evolutionism and Imperialism in Max Weber's Discourse on Music.

Ana Petrov

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FörlagHollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN9783990122693

Max Weber as a sociologist of music? Scrutinising an array of nineteenth-century discourses on the concept of 'development' in music, Ana Petrov focuses on Max Weber's theory of rationalisation in music, which led him to see 'rationalised' music as the most 'developed', the most 'complex' and the 'b