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It is not common that a book this elegant and erudite comes around. White Musical Mythologies is beautifully written, evocative, and historically textured. It is an outstanding example of a new generation of research in music and philosophy. -Michael Gallope, University of Minnesota 'How do you write about something that vanishes?,' Edmund Mendelssohn asks in the opening pages of White Musical Mythologies. The question's vulnerability, knowing no answer is waiting in the wings, augurs a beautifully unusual book, and an often unusually beautiful one too. Mendelssohn reframes musical modernism as an epochal tragedy of missed encounter: struggling and failing to source not just sound but the 'now' of presence itself, it seizes Being at beings' cost. But his critique is lighter than tragedy, unfolding patiently, generously, lyrically-the question of musical writing not behind it, but always being reopened and 'to come.' -Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago

'How do you write about something that vanishes?, ' Edmund Mendelssohn asks in the opening pages of White Musical Mythologies. The question's vulnerability, knowing no answer is waiting in the wings, augurs a beautifully unusual book, and an often unusually beautiful one too. Mendelssohn reframes musical modernism as an epochal tragedy of missed encounter: struggling and failing to source not just sound but the 'now' of presence itself, it seizes Being at beings' cost. But his critique is lighter than tragedy, unfolding patiently, generously, lyrically--the question of musical writing not behind it, but always being reopened and 'to come.' --Seth Brodsky, University of Chicago It is not common that a book this elegant and erudite comes around. White Musical Mythologies is beautifully written, evocative, and historically textured. It is an outstanding example of a new generation of research in music and philosophy. --Michael Gallope, University of Minnesota

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Edmund Mendelssohn is Lecturer in Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

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