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John M. Carvalho, Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 111–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayw008
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This volume is a handsome collection of Jerrold Levinson’s latest concerns about philosophy and music. Composed almost entirely from writings published in the last ten years, the volume captures what Levinson continues to think about music nearly twenty years after the publication of a monograph dedicated to the subject, Music in the Moment.1 This book will be of interest to those heretofore unfamiliar with Levinson’s work, those who know the work but may have missed essays tucked away in unfamiliar places, and those who, knowing the work well, will be rewarded by finding it collected in one place. Included with the recently published work is an essay, ‘What is a Temporal Art?’, co-authored with Philip Alperson, twenty-five years ago, and three previously unpublished essays. Of those unpublished essays, two address a subject that concerns Levinson in some of his most recent publications, namely, jazz. In fact, four of the twelve essays collected here address music in that idiom.