Unmasking the Maestro. A critical autopsy of classical and pop music that interrogates the hidden hierarchies of sound, gender, and political authority.
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The Sound of Change
By Atibhop Pataradetpisan
If you seek a profound inquiry into the intersection of Classical and Pop music, written with the technical precision of a composer and the critical eye of a social theorist, The Sound of Change is an essential acquisition.
In this volume, Atibhop Pataradetpisan distills an interdisciplinary array of scholarship to interrogate the social, political, and cultural forces vibrating between the musical notes. He shatters the long-held illusions of musical "purity," exposing how the elite have weaponized the sublime to obscure the political.
"The perceived nobility of classical music elevates it above all earthly concerns. It has been meticulously framed by the elite as an art form so refined, so representative of ‘high’ human potential, that it has birthed a persistent myth: the illusion that classical music exists beyond the reach of politics."
— From the Preface
Through Pataradetpisan’s lens, the concert hall becomes a microcosm of the state, and the podium a seat of absolute authority:
"The only individual granted the mandate to speak loudly within the silence of the concert hall is the conductor. In this sense, the conductor wields a power so absolute it suppresses all other voices into total stillness—a status that transcends the ordinary and is steeped in an aura of the sacred."
— From 'Democracy in Music'
// Table of Contents //
Author’s Preface
01 Democracy in Music
02 Classical Music: A Timeless Sound (?)
03 No Women on the Conductor's Podium
04 Decoding Modern Music: How to listen through the lens of Pierre Boulez, and its place within Pop Culture.
05 Sound and Signification
06 Untitled No. X
07 The Cycles and Transitions of 'Rhythm'
08 From Singing to Speaking: Hidden Hierarchies in the Stream of Pop Culture
09 The Gypsy Girl: From Pushkin to Bizet—Failed Cultural Integration and the Music of the Underclass
10 Nixon in China: History and Narrative in the Opera of John Adams
11 The Role of the Composer in Epochal Change
12 Dreaming Through the Melodies of the Flood
13 Language, Meaning, Emotion, and the ‘Pre-Packaged Identity’ of the Pop Musician
Details
▪️Format : Paperback
▪️Piyavit Tepumnuaysakul : Editor
▪️Designed by ● SM STUDIO | Pratompong Namjaidee ●
▪️Published : October 2012
▪️ISBN : 978-616-7196-19-0
▪️Dimensions (in) : 5.25 x 8.25
▪️Price : 150 THB
