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Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music
Michael P. Steinberg
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Description for Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music
Paperback. Reveals the pivotal role of music - musical works and musical culture - in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the 'long nineteenth century'. This book argues that from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVA; AVGC4; AVGC5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues ... Read more
This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691126166
SKU
V9780691126166
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About Michael P. Steinberg
Michael P. Steinberg is Professor of History and Music, and Inaugural Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. He is Associate Editor of "The Musical Quarterly" as well as author of "Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival", which won Austria's Victor Adler Prize for History in 2001. He is also the ... Read more
Reviews for Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music
"[Steinberg's] analyses
music not as closed art form but as permeable cultural phenomenon
elicit some fruitful and unexpected results... [A] deeply rewarding book."
Peter Quinn, Times Literary Supplement "Michael P. Steinberg's subject is the vast change that came over music in the 19th century, from something couched in public terms
religious or ceremonial
to something that feels essentially private, even when it happens in public. ... Read more
music not as closed art form but as permeable cultural phenomenon
elicit some fruitful and unexpected results... [A] deeply rewarding book."
Peter Quinn, Times Literary Supplement "Michael P. Steinberg's subject is the vast change that came over music in the 19th century, from something couched in public terms
religious or ceremonial
to something that feels essentially private, even when it happens in public. ... Read more