Music in Society and Culture – serie
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Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
Av Christina Bashford, Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Inbunden, 2016
1733 kr
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Opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products were shaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce.Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to …
Nation and Classical Music
From Handel to Copland
Av Matthew Riley, Anthony D. Smith
Inbunden, 2016
1268 kr
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How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works?Sunday Times Best Reads of 2016This book develops a comparative analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and …
Performing Propaganda: Musical Life and Culture in Paris during the First World War
Av Rachel Moore
Inbunden, 2018
1268 kr
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In the First World War, civilian life played a fundamental part in the war effort; and music was no exception.Performing Propaganda looks at musical life in Paris during the First World War. This conflict was one in which civilian life played a fundamental part in the war effort; and music was no …
Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830
Av R. J. Arnold
Inbunden, 2017
1268 kr
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The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing common themes of authority, national prestige and the power of music over popular sentiment.In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French …
Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music
Inbunden, 2019
1280 kr
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The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history.WINNER: 2020 RMA/CUP Monograph PrizeThe displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history. Musical Journeys uses vignettes of migratory …
Béla Bartók in Italy
The Politics of Myth-Making
Inbunden, 2021
1335 kr
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Examines the reputation of the Hungarian musician Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero.This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero and beacon of freedom. Following Bartok's reception in Italy from the early twentieth century, …
Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France
Inbunden, 2022
1268 kr
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Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.Patrons have long appeared as colorful, exceptional figures in music history, but this book recasts patrons and patronage as creative forces that shaped the …
America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914
Music, Revolution and Race
Av Diana R. Hallman, César A. Leal
Inbunden, 2022
1733 kr
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Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre which serve as the focus of this volume. Following the American Revolution, French authors often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging …
Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750
Between the Rational and the Mystical
Av Tom Dixon, Penelope Gouk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1683 kr
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During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the world for many. What was the role of music in the early modern subject's sensory experience of divinity? While the English intellectuals Peter Sterry …
Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Rome
1550–1750
Inbunden, 2024
1335 kr
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Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements.This book explores connections between the physical care of the sick based on the study of …
Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain
Inbunden, 2024
1298 kr
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By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought.Histories of modern Europe often present late eighteenth-century Spain as a backward place …
Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820
Inbunden, 2025
1938 kr
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Shows how poetic recitation and the interweaving of music and poetry contributed to the advent of a German identity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.The art of reciting a text out loud, known as Vortragskunst, be it in a private circle or in a concert hall, originated in …
Science and the Romantic Vision in Early Nineteenth-Century Opera
Inbunden, 2026
1233 kr
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An interdisciplinary study of how early nineteenth-century science and opera articulated a transnational romantic vision of harmony between self and nature, and how this ideal gave way to mid-century realism and social conflict.The end of the Napoleonic era ushered in a transnational outlook for …
Shostakovich in France
Reception and Mediation in Paris and the Regions
Inbunden, 2026
1268 kr
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Traces how Shostakovich's music in France shifted from being seen in its communist context to an emblem of humanism and resistance across the twentieth century.This book examines shifting critical responses to Shostakovich's music in France throughout the twentieth century - from its introduction …
Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939
Inbunden, 2013
487 kr
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Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music.Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Société Musicale Indépendente of …
History in Mighty Sounds: Musical Constructions of German National Identity, 1848 -1914
Inbunden, 2012
813 kr
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An indispensable study of nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism.Music played a central role in the self-conception of middle-class Germans between the March Revolution of 1848 and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be 'universal' and thus apolitical, it …
