Music's Immanent Future

The conversations generated by the chapters in Music''s Immanent Future grapple with some of music''s paradoxes: that music of the Western art canon is viewed as timeless and universal while other kinds of music are seen as transitory and ephemeral; that in order to make sense of music we need descriptive language; that to open up the new in music we need to revisit the old; that to arrive at a fi...