Author: Daniel Karlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be 'captured' by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.
Street Songs
Author: Daniel Karlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be 'captured' by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads, folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magical powers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of song offers writers a challenge to their more structured art. Overheard in fragments, teasing, ungraspable, the street song may be 'captured' by a literary work but is never, finally, tamed.
Grandaddy's Street Songs: Granddaddy's Street Songs
Author: Monalisa Degross
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A grandfather vividly describes to his grandson a typical day from his youth, when he worked as a peddler selling fresh fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon throughout the city.
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A grandfather vividly describes to his grandson a typical day from his youth, when he worked as a peddler selling fresh fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon throughout the city.
The St. James's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Dickens, Journalism, Music
Author: Robert Terrell Bledsoe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441130993
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. Robert Bledsoe examines the editorial influence of Dickens on articles written by a range of writers and what it reveals about his own developing attitude to music and its social role in parks, community singing groups, music halls and on the streets. The book also looks at the difference between the two journals and how the greater coverage of classical music and opera in All the Year Round reflects the increasing importance of music to Dickens in his later life.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441130993
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. Robert Bledsoe examines the editorial influence of Dickens on articles written by a range of writers and what it reveals about his own developing attitude to music and its social role in parks, community singing groups, music halls and on the streets. The book also looks at the difference between the two journals and how the greater coverage of classical music and opera in All the Year Round reflects the increasing importance of music to Dickens in his later life.
The London
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Cinema of Hong Kong
Author: Poshek Fu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776028
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.
Music for the Revolution
Author: Amy Nelson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271023694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Music for the Revolution examines musicians' responses to Soviet power and reveals the conditions under which a distinctively Soviet musical culture emerged in the early thirties." --book jacket.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271023694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Music for the Revolution examines musicians' responses to Soviet power and reveals the conditions under which a distinctively Soviet musical culture emerged in the early thirties." --book jacket.
Fanfare for a City
Author: Jacek Blaszkiewicz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520393473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852–1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is "Baron" Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520393473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852–1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is "Baron" Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed.
129 Songs
Author: Charles Ives
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795248
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
lxxi + 527 pp.The MUSA series is copublished with the American Musicological Society.
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795248
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
lxxi + 527 pp.The MUSA series is copublished with the American Musicological Society.
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 1
Author: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136095705
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set. To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136095705
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music comprises two volumes, and can only be purchased as the two-volume set. To purchase the set please go to: http://www.routledge.com/9780415972932