Currie, James. "Review of Andrew Bowie's MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY AND MODERNITY." NDPR June 16, 2008.

Bowie, Andrew. Music, Philosophy, and Modernity. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. Bowie's own language is almost completely free of any trace of the excesses that both characterize my own prose and which I am prepared, tentatively, to call music -- a point and problem to which I will return later. But its apparent sobriety nevertheless articulates a call for philosophy to address music, and, further (something potentially quite shocking) that music should not merely be philosophy's object of investigation since music, as it were, knows something that much Anglo-American philosophy, in particular, as yet does not. As Adorno writes: "We do not understand music -- it understands us. This is as true for the musician as for the layman. When we think ourselves closest to it, it speaks to us and waits sad-eyed for us to answer." Or Bowie's words: "One possibility is to regard the 'philosophy of music,' not as the philosophy whose job is conceptually to determine the object 'music,' but rather as the philosophy that emerges from music" (p. 11). . . . Read the rest here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13328.