Music And Sentimentalism In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Author : Stephen Downes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429837418

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Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Stephen Downes Pdf

In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism’s significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalism’s place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire, and authenticity. The contexts encompass diverse musical communities, performing spaces, and listening practices, including the nineteenth-century salon and concert hall, the cinema, the intimate stage persona of the singer-songwriter, and the homely ambiguities of ‘easy’ listening. Interdisciplinary insights inform discussions of musical form, affect, appropriation, nationalisms, psychologies, eco-sentimentalism, humanitarianism, consumerism, and subject positions, with a particular emphasis on masculine sentimentalities. Music is drawn from violin repertory associated with Joseph Joachim, the piano music of Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt, sentimental waltzes from Schubert to Ravel, concert music by Bartók, Szymanowski and Górecki, the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Antônio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova, and songs by Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Barry Manilow and Jimmy Webb. The book will attract readers interested in both the role of music in the history of emotion and the persistence and diversity of sentimental arts after their flowering in the eighteenth-century age of sensibility.

Author : Anja Bunzel,Christopher Campo-Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781003833604

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Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture by Anja Bunzel,Christopher Campo-Bowen Pdf

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works and composers from new woman-centric perspectives. It shows how the unique environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, intersects with gender to reveal hitherto unexplored networks that challenge the methodological nationalism of music studies as well as the discipline’s continued emphasis on singular canonical figures. The main areas of enquiry address aspects of performance and identity both within the Czech lands and abroad; women’s impact on social life with a view to different private, semiprivate, and public contexts and networks; and compositional aesthetics in musical works by and about women, analysed through the lens of piano works, song, choir music, and opera, always with the reception of these works in mind.

Author : Mary G. De Jong
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611476064

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Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary G. De Jong Pdf

Sentimentalism emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a moral philosophy founded on the belief that individuals are able to form relationships and communities because they can, by an effort of the imagination, understand one another’s feelings. American authors of both sexes who accepted these views cultivated readers’ sympathy with others in order to promote self-improvement, motivate action to relieve suffering, reinforce social unity, and build national identity. Entwined with domesticity and imperialism and finding expression in literature and in public and private rituals, sentimentalism became America’s dominant ideology by the early nineteenth century. Sentimental writings and practices had political uses, some reformist and some repressive. They played major roles in the formation of bourgeois consciousness. The first new collection of scholarly essays on American sentimentalism since 1999, this volume brings together ten recent studies, eight published here for the first time. The Introduction assesses the current state of sentimentalism studies; the Afterword reflects on sentimentalism as a liberal discourse central to contemporary political thought as well as literary studies. Other contributors, exploring topics characteristic of the field today, examine nineteenth-century authors’ treatments of education, grief, social inequalities, intimate relationships, and community. This volume has several distinctive features. It illustrates sentimentalism’s appropriation of an array of literary forms (advice literature, personal narrative, and essays on education and urban poverty as well as poetry and the novel) objects (memorial volumes), and cultural practices (communal singing, benevolence). It includes four essays on poetry, less frequently studied than fiction. It identifies internal contradictions that eventually fractured sentimentalism’s viability as a belief system—yet suggests that the protean sentimental mode accommodated itself to revisionary and ironized literary uses, thus persisting long after twentieth-century critics pronounced it a casualty of the Civil War. This collection also offers fresh perspectives on three esteemed authors not usually classified as sentimentalists—Sarah Piatt, Walt Whitman, and Henry James—thus demonstrating that sentimental topics and techniques informed “realism” and “modernism” as they emerged Offering close readings of nineteenth-century American texts and practices, this book demonstrates both the limits of sentimentalism and its wide and lasting influence.

Author : Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135037307

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A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context by Elliott Antokoletz Pdf

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework. While the organization is topical, it is historical within that framework. Musical issues interwoven with political, cultural, and social conditions have had a significant impact on the course of twentieth-century musical tendencies and styles. The goal of this book is to provide a theoretic-analytical basis that will appeal to those instructors who want to incorporate into student learning an analysis of the musical works that have reflected cultural influences on the major musical phenomena of the twentieth century. Focusing on the wide variety of theoretical issues spawned by twentieth-century music, A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context reflects the theoretical/analytical essence of musical structure and design.

Author : Karen Linn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 025206433X

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That Half-barbaric Twang by Karen Linn Pdf

Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa before European-Americans adopted it. Karen Linn shows how the banjo--despite design innovations and several modernizing agendas--has failed to escape its image as a "half-barbaric" instrument symbolic of antimodernism and sentimentalism. Caught in the morass of American racial attitudes and often used to express ambivalence toward modern industrial society, the banjo stood in opposition to the "official" values of rationalism, modernism, and belief in the beneficence of material progress. Linn uses popular literature, visual arts, advertisements, film, performance practices, instrument construction and decoration, and song lyrics to illustrate how notions about the banjo have changed. Linn also traces the instrument from its African origins through the 1980s, alternating between themes of urban modernization and rural nostalgia. She examines the banjo fad of bourgeois Northerners during the late nineteenth century; the African-American banjo tradition and the commercially popular cultural image of the southern black banjo player; the banjo's use in ragtime and early jazz; and the image of the white Southerner and mountaineer as banjo player.

Author : Eugene K. Keefe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112056564609

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Area Handbook for Spain by Eugene K. Keefe Pdf

Manual descriptivo de España.

Author : Christian Thorau,Hansjakob Ziemer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190466961

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The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Christian Thorau,Hansjakob Ziemer Pdf

An idealized image of European concert-goers has long prevailed in historical overviews of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This act of listening was considered to be an invisible and amorphous phenomenon, a naturally given mode of perception. This narrative influenced the conditions of listening from the selection of repertoire to the construction of concert halls and programmes. However, as listening moved from the concert hall to the opera house, street music, and jazz venues, new and visceral listening traditions evolved. In turn, the art of listening was shaped by phenomena of the modern era including media innovation and commercialization. This Handbook asks whether, how, and why practices of music listening changed as the audience moved from pleasure gardens and concert venues in the eighteenth century to living rooms in the twentieth century, and mobile devices in the twenty-first. Through these questions, chapters enable a differently conceived history of listening and offer an agenda for future research.

Author : Masha Salazkina
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520400757

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Romancing Yesenia by Masha Salazkina Pdf

"This book considers the unexpected and mostly unexamined popularity of the Mexican film Yesenia (Alfredo B. Crevenna, 1971) in the Soviet Union. Set during the Second Franco-Mexican war, this unassuming movie melodrama was based on a successful television series, itself an adaptation of a popular women's romance graphic novel, a genre that was extremely common in mid-century Mexico. Screened in the Soviet Union in 1975, Yesenia became the highest grossing film in the history of Soviet film exhibition, unsurpassed by any movie, foreign or domestic. Based on ticket sales alone, it was seen by an astounding 91.4 million viewes in only the first year of its release. Yesenia's popularity in the socialist bloc, largely unbeknown to its Mexican producers, continued for decades after its initial release as the film migrated from cinemas to television screens and video. Boosted by its success with Soviet audiences, the film enjoyed a similarly spectacular exhibition history in China in the late 1970s, when the country was opening itself up to more international media, paving the way for other Mexican and Latin American productions broadcasted on Chinese television in decades to follow. Approaching this period restrospectively, cognizant of more contemporary developments in the global media, I conceive of this episode in film history through a framework of television culture whose increasing impact, I argue, shaped both the film's Mexican production and its subsequent reception within the Socialist bloc. I also argue that Yesenia's popularity carved out a crucial node within the global circuit of cultural and industrial networks, further enabling Latin American media's transcontinental reach"--Provided by publisher.

Author : H. C. Colles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0193161052

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The Ideals of the Nineteenth Century; the Twentieth Century by H. C. Colles Pdf

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782385011

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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Author : Denis Linehan,Ian D. Clark,Philip F. Xie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789908190

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Colonialism, Tourism and Place by Denis Linehan,Ian D. Clark,Philip F. Xie Pdf

This unique book examines the vital and contested connections between colonialism and tourism, which are as lively and charged today as ever before. Demonstrating how much of the marketing of these destinations represents the constant renewal of colonialism in the tourism business, this book illustrates how actors in the worldwide tourism industry continue to benefit from the colonial roots of globalisation.

Author : Nicholas Cook,Anthony Pople
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521662567

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music by Nicholas Cook,Anthony Pople Pdf

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Author : Hui Miao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030883300

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The Sentimental in Chinese Cinema by Hui Miao Pdf

This book explores manifestations and perpetuations of the sentimental in Mainland Chinese cinema from the 1990s to the 2000s. A sentimental Chinese cinema – one that articulates notions of homecoming and belonging – emerged in the 1990s with its distinctive styles. The representations and configurations of this evolving style of Chinese cinematic expression are not only thought provoking in their own right, but also in the way they contrast with past forms of Chinese sentimental cinema and with sentimental aesthetics elsewhere in the world. These new representations have transformed established family centred expressions of the sentimental in Chinese cinema. The new sentimental emphasises togetherness and a yearning for belonging which often appear in the themes of homecoming and home-longing. This also forms a cultural resistance towards the increasingly alienating and isolating forces of globalisation and urbanisation. This book analyses the sociocultural conditions that have allowed for a renewed understanding of the sentimental and the cultural identity markers that are perpetually under contestation.

Author : Rey Morgan Longyear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B4347246

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Nineteenth-century Romanticism in Music by Rey Morgan Longyear Pdf

"Though this volume has been substantially expanded from its original form, it is still a survey rather than a comprehensive history of nineteenth-century music; approximately 150 composers are discussed in this study." --from Preface.

Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107161528

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The Ballad in American Popular Music by David Metzer Pdf

The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.