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Facing the Music: Voices from the Margins

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Recent philosophy of music in the Anglophone analytic tradition has produced many fine-grained analyses of musical practices within the context of the Western fine-art tradition. It has not for the most part, however, been self-conscious about the normative implications of that orienting tradition. As a result, the achievements of recent philosophical discussions of music have been unnecessarily constricted. The way forward is to enrich the range of musical practices philosophy takes as its target of examination.

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    Philip Alperson

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Alperson, P. Facing the Music: Voices from the Margins. Topoi 28, 91–96 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-009-9052-9

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