New Cultural History of Music – serie
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Sounding Feminine
Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850
Inbunden, 2020
1393 kr
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Between 1780 and 1850, the growing prominence of female singers in Britain's professional and amateur spheres opened a fraught discourse about women's engagement with musical culture. Protestant evangelical gender ideology framed the powerful, well-trained, and expressive female voice as a sign of …
Music, Piety, and Propaganda
The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Häftad, 2022
448 kr
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Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of …
What the Ballad Knows
The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German Nationalism
Av Adrian Daub
Inbunden, 2022
1116 kr
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Over the course of the 19th century, ballads proliferated in German-speaking Europe in a truly remarkable range of contexts. Audiences were of course likely encounter balladry in the volumes of Goethe and Schiller, in various anthologies or illustrated editions. But they were just as likely to come …
Enlightenment Orpheus
The Power of Music in Other Worlds
Inbunden, 2008
785 kr
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The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment …
Voice Lessons
French Melodie in the Belle Epoque
Inbunden, 2010
808 kr
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Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history of music in the Belle Epoque. Voice Lessons examines the modern musical art known as la mélodie française and its rise to prominence in the years around 1900-a period when France was pouring …
Socialist Laments
Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic
Inbunden, 2021
918 kr
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Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the national past. Official commemorative culture in East Germany celebrated a selective set of political heroes, seeming to leave no public space for …
Singing the News of Death
Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900
Inbunden, 2022
1880 kr
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Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe …
Visions of the Village
Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera
Inbunden, 2025
947 kr
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Visions of the Village offers a nuanced account of the cultural history, political salience, and social resonances of Czech village operas, especially those by composers Bed%rich Smetana, Antonín Dvo%rák, and Leoš Janáček. By examining music-critical writings, institutional and government records, …
Searching for Wagner in Japan
Inbunden, 2026
1344 kr
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In 1868 Japan opened its borders to the outside world and began a rapid modernization process which included importing European musical instruments, compositional practices, and repertoire. The operas and prose of Richard Wagner trickled into Japan during this time and, as in other parts of the …
The Empire of the Ear
Music, Race, and the Sonic Architecture of Colonial Morocco
Av Samuel Llano
Inbunden, 2026
1006 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Any study of colonial Morocco (1912-56) presents unique and compelling …
The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2024
1403 kr
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Musical representations of Europe in myth and allegory are well known, but when and under what circumstances did the words "European" and "music" become linked together? What did the resulting term mean in music before 1800 and how did it evolve into the label "Western music," which features so …
Entangled Histories
Opera and Cultural Exchange between Vienna and the Italian States after Napoleon
Inbunden, 2025
1270 kr
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Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Austrian empire, serving as a testing ground for, among others, theories of language and …
Cultivated by Hand
Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic
Häftad, 2024
349 kr
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Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution …
Sounding Race, Identity, and Devotion in Puebla de los Ãngeles
Inbunden, 2027
961 kr
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This book examines the performance of Christmas villancicos in public festivals within the institutional and social fabric of Puebla, México. It centers on the large collection of villancicos by Guatemalan composer Gaspar Fernández during his tenure as chapel master of Puebla Cathedral in the …
