Treacherous Bonds And Laughing Fire

Author : Mark Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351538428

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Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring by Mark Berry Pdf

Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition, and the wealth of Wagner source material. Many of his writings are explicitly political in their concerns, for Wagner was emphatically not a revolutionary solely for the sake of art. Yet it would be misleading to see even the most 'political' tracts as somehow divorced from the aesthetic realm; Wagner's radical challenge to liberal-democratic politics makes no such distinction. This book considers Wagner's treatment of various worlds: nature, politics, economics, and metaphysics, in order to explain just how radical that challenge is. Classical interpretations have tended to opt either for an 'optimistic' view of the Ring, centred upon the influence of Young Hegelian thought - in particular the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach - and Wagner's concomitant revolutionary politics, or for the 'pessimistic' option, removing the disillusioned Wagner-in-Swiss-exile from the political sphere and stressing the undoubtedly important role of Arthur Schopenhauer. Such an 'either-or' approach seriously misrepresents not only Wagner's compositional method but also his intellectual method. It also sidelines inconvenient aspects of the dramas that fail to 'fit' whichever interpretation is selected. Wagner's tendency is not progressively to recant previous 'errors' in his oeuvre. Radical ideas are not completely replaced by a Schopenhauerian world-view, however loudly the composer might come to trumpet his apparent 'conversion'. Nor is Wagner's truly an Hegelian method, although Hegelian dialectic plays an important role. In fact, Wagner is in many ways not really a systematic thinker at all (which is not to portray him as self-consciously unsystematic in a Nietzschean, let alone 'post-modernist' fashion).

Author : Barry Emslie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843835363

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Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love by Barry Emslie Pdf

Emslie's study of Wagner's creativity examines the centrality of love - and its obverse, hate - to the composer's world view.

Author : Mark Berry,Nicholas Vazsonyi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107108516

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The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Mark Berry,Nicholas Vazsonyi Pdf

This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.

Author : Cormac Newark,William Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197510551

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The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon by Cormac Newark,William Weber Pdf

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by tracing its evolution from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most canonic art forms still in existence. Throughout the book, a lively assembly of musicologists, historians, and industry professionals tackle key questions of opera's past, present, and future. Why did its canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? Why do its top ten titles, all more than a century old, now account for nearly a quarter of all performances worldwide? Why is this system of production becoming still more top-heavy, even while the repertory seemingly expands, notably to include early music? Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. To reflect the contested nature of many of them, each is addressed in paired chapters. These complement each other in different ways: by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions in music and cultural history, and reinvigorates the dialogue with an industry that is, despite everything, still growing.

Author : Árpád Szakolczai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415623919

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Comedy and the Public Sphere by Árpád Szakolczai Pdf

The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.

Author : Michael Saler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317604808

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The Fin-de-Siècle World by Michael Saler Pdf

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.

Author : Kasper Bastiaan van Kooten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004245389

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"Was deutsch und echt..." by Kasper Bastiaan van Kooten Pdf

This book shows nineteenth-century German opera’s entanglement with national identity formation, adding a significant perspective to discussions about Wagner’s relation to German nationalism by interpreting his esthetic endeavors as a continuation of previous campaigns for the genre’s emancipation.

Author : Elaine Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199998098

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Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republic by Elaine Kelly Pdf

"Composing the Canon in the German Democratic Republis uses the reception of the Germanic musical heritage to chart the changing landscape of musical culture in the German Democratic Republic. Author Elaine Kelly demonstrates the nuances of musical thought in the state, revealing a model of societal ascent and decline that has implications that reach far beyond studies of the GDR itself"--Jacket.

Author : James Garratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107032415

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Music and Politics by James Garratt Pdf

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429944540

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Wagnerism by Alex Ross Pdf

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114075950

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The Wagner Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300104227

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Richard Wagner by Joachim Köhler Pdf

This major new biography of Richard Wagner is iconoclastic, astringent and bold. It explores the philosophical roots of Wagner's work, which the composer himself deliberately obfuscated. It re-evaluates Wagner's relationships with his mother, step-father and - most revealingly - his wife, Cosima, standing received opinion on its head. And he meets head on, and confirms, the controversy over Wagner's anti-semitism. At the same time, and notwithstanding, Kohler profoundly acknowledges Wagner's genius.

Author : Mark Berry,Nicholas Vazsonyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316258033

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The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Mark Berry,Nicholas Vazsonyi Pdf

"The Companion is an essential, truly interdisciplinary, tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with to Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring , introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, as well as giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent chapters, written by leading Wagner experts, focus on musical topics such as "leitmotif," and structure, and provide a comprehensive set of character portraits, including leading players like Wotan, Brünnhilde, and Siegfried. Further chapters look to the mythological background of the work and the idea of the Bayreuth Festival, as well as critical reception of the Ring, its relationship to Nazism, and its impact on literature and popular culture, in turn offering new approaches to interpretation including gender, race and environmentalism. The volume ends with a history of notable stage productions from the world premiere in 1876 to the most recent stagings in Bayreuth and elsewhere"--

Author : Mark Berry
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789140903

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Arnold Schoenberg by Mark Berry Pdf

The most radical and divisive composer of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg remains a hero to many, and a villain to many others. In this refreshingly balanced biography, Mark Berry tells the story of Schoenberg’s remarkable life and work, situating his tale within the wider symphony of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. Born in the Jewish quarter of his beloved Vienna, Schoenberg left Austria for his early career in Berlin as a leading light of Weimar culture, before being forced to flee in the dead of night from Hitler’s Third Reich. He found himself in the United States, settling in Los Angeles, where he would inspire composers from George Gershwin to John Cage. Introducing all of Schoenberg’s major musical works, from his very first compositions, such as the String Quartet in D Major, to his invention of the twelve-tone method, Berry explores how Schoenberg’s revolutionary approach to musical composition incorporated Wagnerian late Romanticism and the brave new worlds of atonality and serialism. Essential reading for anyone interested in the music and history of the twentieth century, this book makes clear Schoenberg changed the history of music forever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : American literature
ISBN : MINN:319510021488628

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Our Continent by Anonim Pdf