All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Library Edition)

Carson Holloway

ISBN 10: 0786145692 ISBN 13: 9780786145690

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc., 2006

Synopsis

The national debate over popular music’s effect on character is both furious and confused. Conservatives complain primarily about lyrics, appealing to public decency and safety. Liberals, swift to the defense of any self-expression, simultaneously celebrate rock’s liberating ethos and deny its cultural influence. Carson Holloway is out to shatter the assumptions of pop’s critics and defenders alike, showing that music is more beneficial than we think.

Plato and Aristotle, Holloway finds, were aware that music can either inflame the soul with passion or can awaken it to reason and help to cultivate temperance. What Holloway proposes—a rediscovery of the musical wisdom of Plato and Aristotle—will completely change the way we think about music.

About this title

From the Publisher:

CARSON HOLLOWAY, one of the new generation of cultural critics that includes writers such as Jedediah Purdy and Wendy Shalit, teaches political science at Concord College in West Virginia.

About the Author:

Carson Holloway is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the 2005-06 William E. Simon Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. A recipient of a John M. Olin Foundation faculty fellowship and research grants from the H. B. Earhart Foundation, his articles have appeared in the Review of Politics and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786145692
• ISBN 13: 9780786145690
• Binding: Audio Cassette