Stephen Downes

Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalism's place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire and authenticity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429837401
• Artikelnr.: 61482285

Autorenporträt

Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler (2013), and Aesthetics of Music (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: Getting Sentimental
Part 1: Spaces
2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn
and in the lounge.
3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music
in the nineteenth-century concert hall.
Part 2: Genres
4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel.
5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second Violin
Concertos of Bartók and Szymanowski.
Part 3: Psychologies
6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes's Schumann and Schumann's
'Chopin'.
7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: 'screen memories', a Schubert lied
and the
voice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day.
Part 4: Appropriations
8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin's Death Bed.
9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim's 'Insensatez', and
sentimental
ecology.
10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow's 'Could it be Magic?'
Part 5: Sympathies
11. Make it 'Easy'? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt
Bacharach and Hal
David.
12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb.
Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer
13. Górecki's Tears/ Our Tears.