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- Title
Under Threat: Tactics, Strategies, and »Ways of Seeing«.
- Authors
Barry, Barbara
- Abstract
Using Jacob Bronowski's criteria of tactics, as shortterm solutions, and strategies, as long-range solutions of structural plans, the article considers how they provide points of identity and recognition in musical journeys: as deflective, intriguing timeprofiles as musical stories -- rather than Heinrich Schenker's reductive spatial hierarchies. Contemporary cognitive theory underscores the vital connection between categories of identity and the play of the imagination -- both within tonal and extended tonal language, and especially non-tonal contexts, where prime motifs, as in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, provide reference points in a psycho-drama of desire, and playing with fire. The closing reference to Bronowski reopens the intellectual landscape: that we are neither shut in nor shouted down by social media and the 'woke' society but retain the essential human capability of choice.
- Subjects
BRONOWSKI, Jacob, 1908-1974; SCHENKER, Heinrich; SOCIAL media; DAMASIO, Antonio; KRAMER, Jonathan
- Publication
International Review of the Aesthetics & Sociology of Music, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 2, p183
- ISSN
0351-5796
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21857/ygjwrcpz8y