Deconstructive variations: music and reason in western society

Blurb

Contents: Whose magic flute? : intimations of reality at the
gates of the Enlightenment -- How could Chopin’s A-major prelude be
deconstructed? -- Toward a deconstruction of structural listening : a
critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky -- The closing of the
American dream? : a musical perspective on Allan Bloom, Spike Lee, and
doing the right thing.