Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society

Abstract

Whose magic flute? - intimations of reality at the gates of the enlightenment how could Chopin's A-Major Prelude be deconstructed? towards a deconstruction of structural listening - a critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky the closing of the American dream? - a musical perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and doing the right thing.