Performing Propaganda: Musical Life and Culture in Paris During the First World War

Rachel Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 6
• In the First World War, civilian life played a fundamental part in the war effort; and music was no exception. Performing Propaganda looks at musical ... Lees meer

Nation and Classical Music

Matthew Riley, Anthony D Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 4
• How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works? Sunday Times Best Reads of 2016 This book develops a co... Lees meer

Béla Bartók in Italy

Nicolò Palazzetti

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 8
• Examines the reputation of the Hungarian musician Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero. This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian c... Lees meer

Music, Nature and Divine Knowledge in England, 1650-1750

Tom Dixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 11
• During a period of tumultuous change in English political, religious and cultural life, music signified the unspeakable presence of the divine in the ... Lees meer

Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music

Florian Scheding

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 7
• The displacement of European musics and musicians is a defining feature of twentieth-century music history. WINNER: 2020 RMA/CUP Monograph Prize The d... Lees meer

America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 10
• Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre which... Lees meer

Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939

Barbara L Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 2
• Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism... Lees meer

Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain

Ana P Sánchez-Rojo

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture
• By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-... Lees meer

The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France

Louis K Epstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 9
• Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art. Patrons... Lees meer

Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700-1830

R J Arnold

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Society and Culture | nr. 5
• The first full-length treatment of the operatic querelles in eighteenth-century France, placing individual querelles in historical context and tracing... Lees meer