Lawrence Kramer (born 1946) is an American musicologist and composer. His academic work is closely associated with humanistic, culturally oriented New Musicology, now more often referred to as cultural or critical musicology. Writing in 2001, Alastair Williams described Kramer as a pioneering figure in the disciplinary change that brought musicology, formerly an outlier, into the broader fold of the humanities.
Books in order of publication:
Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (University of California Press, 1984).
Music as Cultural Practice: 1800-1900 (University of California Press, 1990).
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (University of California Press, 1995).
After the Love death: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture (University of California Press, 1997).
Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (University of California Press, 2001).
Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss (University of California Press, 2004).
Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response: Selected Essays, Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology (Ashgate, 2006).
Why Classical Music Still Matters (University of California Press, 2007).
Interpreting Music (University of California Press, 2010).
Music as Cultural Practice: 1800-1900 (1990; University of California Press, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2010).
Porque É a Música Clássica ainda Importante? Trans. Fernanda Barão (Bizancio, 2010).
Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge (University of California Press, 2012).
Perchè la musica classica? Significati, valori, futuro. Trans. Davide Fassio (EDT, 2011).
The Thought of Music (University of California Press, 2016)
The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening (University of California Press, 2019)
Music and the Forms of Life (University of California Press, 2022)
Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of Being – 2024
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