Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction Good: What Values Do We Bring to Music? 1
5. 1. Serious: The Cultural Work of Classical Music and the Trap of Musical Sound 20
6. 2. Unified: Beethoven, the Beatles, and the Imperfect Ideology of the Masterpiece 51
7. 3. Deep: Classical Values and Musical Color in Mahler’s Symphonies 87
8. 4. Authentic: Progressive Rock and the Inversion of Musical Values 120
9. 5. Heroic: “Classic” Jazz and Musical Dialogues 153
10. 6. Original: Handel Historiography and the Horizontal Remix 183
11. 7. Connected: What’s at Stake in How We Love the Music We Love? 216
12. Notes 239
13. Works Cited 261
14. Index 281