Music and Victorian Liberalism

Herausgeber: Collins, Sarah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a new perspective on the aesthetic aspects of liberalism through examinations of music and ideas about music, including listening practices, performance contexts and modes of embodiment across elite and amateur spheres. This book will nuance current understanding, and will appeal to scholars of both Victorian literature and music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781108703161
• ISBN-10: 110870316X
• Artikelnr.: 70679948

Inhaltsangabe

1. Aesthetic liberalism Sarah Collins; Part I. Cultivation and/as Control:
2. Musical discipline and Victorian liberal reform Erin Johnson-Williams;
3. 'Brightening the lives of the people on Sunday': the National Sunday
League and liberal attitudes towards concert promotion in Victorian Britain
Simon McVeigh; 4. Music and mass education: cultivation or control?
Rosemary Golding; Part II. Dissent, Individualism and Agency: 5. A musical
presence among liberal thinkers: Eliza Flower and her circle, 1832-1845
Kate Bowan; 6. 'That more liberal mode of life': Rosa Newmarch,
aestheticism, and queer listening in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Phillip Ross Bullock; Part III. Character and Emotion: 7. Style, character
and revelation in Parry's Fourth Symphony Matthew Riley; 8. The Parrys and
Prometheus Unbound: actualizing liberalism Phyllis Weliver; 9. Liberalism
and Victorian musical sympathy Bennett Zon; 10. Music and character in the
Victorian reception of Wagner: conducting the Philharmonic ca. 1855
Katherine Fry; 11. Afterword: liberalism in the round Peter Mandler.