Composing Capital

Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era. The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is now being replaced by that of corporations, leading to new unions of classical music and contemporary capitalism. In Composing Capital, Marianna Ritchey lays bare the appropriation of classical music by the current neoliberal regime. Artists, critics, and institutions have aligned themselvesand, by extension, classical music itselfwith free-market ideology. More specifically, Ritchey is interested in how classical music has lent its