Music, Culture and Social Reform in the Age of Wagner - Hardcover

Garratt, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521110548 ISBN 13: 9780521110549

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Focusing on the music and ideas of Richard Wagner and his contemporaries, this 2010 book redefines our understanding of culture and politics in nineteenth-century Germany. It reveals the projects for social reform that shaped key musical institutions and works in this period, including the music of Wagner, Mendelssohn and Liszt.

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Reseña del editor:

Challenging received views of music in nineteenth-century German thought, culture and society, this 2010 book provides a radical reappraisal of its socio-political meanings and functions. Garratt argues that far from governing the nineteenth-century musical discourse and practice, the concept of artistic autonomy and the aesthetic categories bequeathed by Weimar classicism were persistently challenged by alternative models of music's social role. The book investigates these competing models and the social projects that gave rise to them. It interrogates nineteenth-century musical discourse, discussing a wide range of manifestos championing musical democratization or seeking to make music an engine for the transformation of society. In addition, it explores institutions and movements that attempted to realize these goals, and compositions - by Mendelssohn, Lortzing and Liszt as well as Wagner - in which the relation between aesthetic and social claims is programmatic.

Biografía del autor:

James Garratt is Senior Lecturer in Music and University Organist at the University of Manchester.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521110548
• ISBN 13: 9780521110549
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306