CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE holds degrees from the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cambridge and Cape Town, and has carried out research in various musical fields including twentieth-century music, African music, and Marxist sociology and aesthetics of music. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. Dr Ballantine is currently Professor of Music at the University of Natal.
Chapter 1 Music and Society: The Forgotten Relationship
Chapter 2 Beethoven, Hegel and Marx
Chapter 3 Social and Philosophical Outlook in MozartâEUR(TM)s Operas
Chapter 4 Charles Ives and the Meaning of Quotation in Music
Chapter 5 A Musical Triptych: The Contemporary Scene
Chapter 6 An Aesthetic of Experimental Music
Chapter 7 A Revaluation of SibeliusâEUR(TM) Symphonies
