A Different Story: Aesthestics and the History of Western Music

Edstr繹m, an ethnomusicologist, uses aesthetics as a means to chronicle Western music history in its social, cultural, and performance contexts. He examines music from ancient Greece to the present day and changing aesthetics in musical life. The book, which originated in a conference in Umea, Sweden, was originally published in Swedish as En ANNAN ber瓣ttelse om den v瓣sterl瓣ndska musikhisorien - och det estetiska projektet in 2002. It was translated by the author and Joel Speerstra. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)