Polyudova Elena Nikolaevna,
PhD, Assistant Professor,
Literature and Russian as a Foreign Language Lecturer,
Defense Language Institute,
Monterey, USA.
e-mail: epolyudova@gmail.com

MODERN CULTURAL RESEARCH AS A BOOK OF REFLECTIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK OF
E. N. SHAPINSKAYA «PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC»

Abstract. An article considers key points of Ekaterina Shapinskaya’s book “Philosophy of Music”: modern opera productions; heritage of classical music; opera broadcast in movie theaters. The book uses important terms of philosophy and cultural studies, efficiently applying them to the analysis of music. Moreover, the book deliberates on the aesthetic education in the modern world of globalization and technologies. Analyzing the vast studies of modern tendencies in the classical music, the article defines the book as an important step in Cultural Studies.

Keyword. Opera, cultural studies, modern opera production, opera broadcast in movie theaters, philosophy of music, postmodernism, heritage of classical music, aesthetic education, globalization.

[1] E .Shapinskaya. Philosophy of Music in aNtw Key. Washington, Library of Congress, 2019. 148 p.