An Unnatural Attitude

Download or read book An Unnatural Attitude written by Benjamin Steege and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thinking and listening that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic and its legacy-the phenomenological style, which involved a search for contact with the world of perception. Resisting the influence of naturalism, figures in this milieu argued for a new understanding and description of the musical experience as something based not in introspection but rather in an attitude of outward, open orientation, where musical experience acquires meaning when the act of listening is physically (materially) shared with others"--