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OverviewThis book reassesses the place of politics and emotion within Romantic music aesthetics. Drawing together insights from the history of emotions, cultural history, and studies of philosophical idealism, 'affective relationality' – the channelling of emotion through music's social and cultural synergies – emerges as key to Romantic aesthetic thought. Now familiar concepts such as theatrical illusion, genius, poetic criticism, and the renewed connection of art to mythology and religion opened new spaces for audiences' feelings, as thinkers such as Rousseau, Herder, Germaine de Staël, Joseph Mainzer, Pierre Leroux and George Sand sought alternatives to the political status quo. Building on the sentimental tradition in eighteenth-century art and politics, the Romantics created ways of listening to music imbued not just with melancholic longing for transcendence but also with humour, gothic fantasy, satire, and political solidarity. The consequences have extended far beyond the classical concert hall into numerous domains of popular culture from melodrama, romances and political songwriting to musical theatre and film. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew Pritchard (University of Leeds)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009491648ISBN 10: 1009491644 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 30 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsTable of contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Staging sentimentality; 2. The legacy of Rousseau; 3. The composer as genius; 4. Idealist aesthetics and the music critic; 5. Picturing the musical Absolute; 6. Between idealism and realism I: the French socialists; 7. Between idealism and realism II: after Hegel; 8. From Hanslick to the twentieth century; Conclusion: The fate of feeling; Bibliography.ReviewsAuthor InformationMatthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He co-edited the volume Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook (2020), and has published articles on music aesthetics, as well as translations of key texts, ranging across the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries and from Germany to Bengal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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