Author: Emily MacGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009172786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.
Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination
Author: Emily MacGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009172786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009172786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Reveals how in the culturally volatile 1930s the symphony, long associated with ideas of selfhood, was a flourishing transnational phenomenon.
Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination
Author: Emily MacGregor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009187562
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009187562
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almost extinguished in the early 1930s, this book makes plain the genre's continued cultural dominance, and argues that the symphony can illuminate issues around space/geography, race, and postcolonialism in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Focusing on a number of symphonies composed or premiered in 1933, this book recreates some of the cultural and political landscapes of an uncertain historical moment-a year when Hitler took power in Germany, and the Great Depression reached its peak in the United States. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination asks what North American and European symphonies from the early 1930s can tell us about how people imagined selfhood during a period of international insecurity and political upheaval, of expansionist and colonial fantasies, scientised racism, and emergent fascism.
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow
Author: Kate Guthrie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197523935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow takes a fresh look at the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Offering an alternative to the traditional focus on either highbrow modernism on the one hand or lowbrow popular music on the other, its novel view centers on the wealth of previously overlooked products and practices that bridged the space between these cultural extremes. While seminal attempts to recover middlebrow culture came from literary critics and historians, middlebrow studies is now a burgeoning field within musicology. As the first essay collection on this topic, this handbook has two aims: first, it seeks to explore the middlebrow as a historical phenomenon, excavating the kinds of critical writings, marketing practices, and compositional styles with which it was associated. By reanimating a range of musical practices and products--from symphonic concerts to Broadway musicals, opera criticism to rock journalism, and modern jazz to pop-rock--the contributors investigate how artists, critics, and audiences breached the divide from both above and below. In the process, the handbook chapters push the boundaries of middlebrow studies and demonstrate the category's relevance outside of the mid-twentieth-century Anglophone world by delving into the nineteenth century, interrogating the present day, and looking to Germany, Russia, and beyond. The handbook's second aim is to complicate the disciplinary divisions that have flowed from the entrenched oppositions between high and low genres. Breaking new ground by bringing together scholars of classical and popular music, these chapters trace common middlebrow themes across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Across this broad vista, contributors account for the kinds of syntheses, overlaps, and juxtapositions that made the cultural middle such a richly textured and endlessly contested terrain.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197523935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow takes a fresh look at the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Offering an alternative to the traditional focus on either highbrow modernism on the one hand or lowbrow popular music on the other, its novel view centers on the wealth of previously overlooked products and practices that bridged the space between these cultural extremes. While seminal attempts to recover middlebrow culture came from literary critics and historians, middlebrow studies is now a burgeoning field within musicology. As the first essay collection on this topic, this handbook has two aims: first, it seeks to explore the middlebrow as a historical phenomenon, excavating the kinds of critical writings, marketing practices, and compositional styles with which it was associated. By reanimating a range of musical practices and products--from symphonic concerts to Broadway musicals, opera criticism to rock journalism, and modern jazz to pop-rock--the contributors investigate how artists, critics, and audiences breached the divide from both above and below. In the process, the handbook chapters push the boundaries of middlebrow studies and demonstrate the category's relevance outside of the mid-twentieth-century Anglophone world by delving into the nineteenth century, interrogating the present day, and looking to Germany, Russia, and beyond. The handbook's second aim is to complicate the disciplinary divisions that have flowed from the entrenched oppositions between high and low genres. Breaking new ground by bringing together scholars of classical and popular music, these chapters trace common middlebrow themes across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Across this broad vista, contributors account for the kinds of syntheses, overlaps, and juxtapositions that made the cultural middle such a richly textured and endlessly contested terrain.
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
Author: Jamie L. Reuland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009424998
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009424998
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination.
Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark
Author: Annika Forkert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009337351
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Unlocks new perspectives on twentieth-century British music, charting Lutyens and Clark's influential and controversial contributions to composition, performance, appreciation, and education.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009337351
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Unlocks new perspectives on twentieth-century British music, charting Lutyens and Clark's influential and controversial contributions to composition, performance, appreciation, and education.
The Songs of Clara Schumann
Author: Stephen Rodgers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108998593
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Focusing on Clara Schumann's central contributions to the genre of the Lied (or German art song), this is the first book-length critical study of her songs. Although relatively few in number, they were published and reviewed favorably in the press during her lifetime, and they continue to be programmed regularly in recitals by professional and amateur performers alike. Highlighting the powerful and distinctive features of the songs, the book treats them as a prism, casting light not just on them but also through them to explore questions that foster a deeper understanding of the work of female composers. The author argues for the importance of taking Clara Schumann's music on its own terms, the intimate relationship between text and musical form, and the vital role of musical analysis in recuperating the contributions of previously understudied composers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108998593
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Focusing on Clara Schumann's central contributions to the genre of the Lied (or German art song), this is the first book-length critical study of her songs. Although relatively few in number, they were published and reviewed favorably in the press during her lifetime, and they continue to be programmed regularly in recitals by professional and amateur performers alike. Highlighting the powerful and distinctive features of the songs, the book treats them as a prism, casting light not just on them but also through them to explore questions that foster a deeper understanding of the work of female composers. The author argues for the importance of taking Clara Schumann's music on its own terms, the intimate relationship between text and musical form, and the vital role of musical analysis in recuperating the contributions of previously understudied composers.
Musical Modernism in Global Perspective
Author: Björn Heile
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009491709
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism and its transnational diasporic network of composers, musicians, and institutions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009491709
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism and its transnational diasporic network of composers, musicians, and institutions.
Monteverdi and the Marvellous
Author: Roseen Giles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009355341
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009355341
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals. The music of this pivotal figure reveals how composers and performers at the turn of the seventeenth century not only responded to but themselves influenced experiments in language.
Schubert's String Quartets
Author: Anne Hyland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009210920
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A fresh analytical and musicological exploration of Schubert's incorporation of lyric elements into sonata form by way of his string quartets.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009210920
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A fresh analytical and musicological exploration of Schubert's incorporation of lyric elements into sonata form by way of his string quartets.
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema
Author: Michelle Langford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 075564817X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the cinema of Iran. The book is organised around eight broad themes including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender, and genre. Encompassing a diverse range of methodological approaches and disciplinary frameworks including film studies, cultural studies, and political economy, each chapter is a self-contained study on a specific topic engaging with the national and transnational history of Iranian cinema which combined provide readers with original new insights into Iranian film and filmmakers, from fiction films to art house and popular cinema. The Handbook includes analysis of the works of established filmmakers such as Bahram Beyzaie, Rakhshan Banetemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, as well as the output of emerging voices such as Ida Panahandeh and Shahram Mokri. Covering well-known topics as well as cutting edge ones such the sonic and visual manifestations of the urban environment in Iranian films, this book is a vital resource for understanding Iran and its unique cinematic culture.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 075564817X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the cinema of Iran. The book is organised around eight broad themes including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender, and genre. Encompassing a diverse range of methodological approaches and disciplinary frameworks including film studies, cultural studies, and political economy, each chapter is a self-contained study on a specific topic engaging with the national and transnational history of Iranian cinema which combined provide readers with original new insights into Iranian film and filmmakers, from fiction films to art house and popular cinema. The Handbook includes analysis of the works of established filmmakers such as Bahram Beyzaie, Rakhshan Banetemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, as well as the output of emerging voices such as Ida Panahandeh and Shahram Mokri. Covering well-known topics as well as cutting edge ones such the sonic and visual manifestations of the urban environment in Iranian films, this book is a vital resource for understanding Iran and its unique cinematic culture.