TY - JOUR
TI - Cultural images of the world as a condition for the autonomy of music
AU - Moraczewski, Krzysztof
TI - Cultural images of the world as a condition for the autonomy of music
AB - 
	The general aim of the essay is to pose the question of the relationship between the elements of a socially shared, general image of the world (using Aron Gurevich’s terminology) and the possibility of constructing the idea of autonomous music. Musical autonomy is understood here as the thesis that the order of music is independent from any other order, e.g. social, cultural etc. Hence the focus of these considerations is on cultural images of music that situate music beyond external social conditions. Several possibilities of this type are considered, such as the Pythagorean connection between music and the cosmic order, the Iranian concept of Aša, and the ancient Chinese connection between music and the cosmo-political order. Shamanism is considered as a possible archaic source for this kind of mental operation. These considerations do not aim at any kind of archaistic reduction, but rather at describing the cultural-historical conditions that made the very idea of autonomous music possible.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 66
PY - 2019
SN - 0867-5392
C1 - 2084-3887
SP - 127
EP - 163
DO - 10.4467/20843887PI.19.005.11638
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/principia/article/elementy-kulturowego-obrazu-swiata-jako-warunek-autonomizacji-muzyki
KW - music
KW - musical culture
KW - aesthetic autonomy
KW - image of the world
KW - history of culture