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Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera · orchestra · phonograph · film
- Title
- Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera · orchestra · phonograph · film / Richard Leppert.
- Author
- Leppert, Richard D.
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 351 pages : illustrations (some color), music; 26 cm
- Summary
- "The book addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the nascent twentieth century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas--cultural, social, and personal--associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature, particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be no turning back"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Modernism (Music)
- Motion pictures > Social aspects
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 > Fanciulla del West
- Nature in music
- Nature in motion pictures
- Fitzcarraldo (Motion picture)
- History
- Sound recordings > Social aspects
- Opera > Social aspects
- Days of heaven (Motion picture)
- Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
- Fanciulla del West (Puccini, Giacomo)
- 1900 - 1999
- Modernism (Music) > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The Girl of the golden West -- Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo -- Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of musical listening, 1904-1929 -- Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide -- Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur) -- Conclusion : acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.
- Call Number
- JMF 15-376
- ISBN
- 9780520287372
- 0520287371
- 9780520962521 (canceled/invalid)
- 0520962524 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015009826
- OCLC
- 905450269
- Author
- Leppert, Richard D., author.
- Title
- Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera · orchestra · phonograph · film / Richard Leppert.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JMF 15-376