Wed, 29 September 2021 | 5:00 – 6:30 pm GMT+1 | Lecture
Aaron Ridley: Song as a Whole
Like many recent aestheticians, I find the view that song is a simple conjunction of words and music insufficiently holistic. Here, I defend a strong version of holism against several of the weaker varieties to be found in the literature, and argue that only the strong version is able to do justice to the character and value of song as a whole.
