Enlightenment Orpheus

Released on by Vanessa Agnew
preview-18

  • Enlightenment Orpheus Book Detail

  • Author : Vanessa Agnew
  • Release Date : 2008-05-01
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Music
  • Pages : 278
  • ISBN 13 : 0198044356
  • File Size : 18,18 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Enlightenment Orpheus by Vanessa Agnew PDF Summary

Book Description: The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Agnew persuasively connects the English traveler and music scholar Charles Burney with the ancient myth of Orpheus. She uses Burney as a guide through wide-ranging discussions of eighteenth-century musical travel, views on music's curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity, Agnew adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the aural. She also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in generating knowledge at the time. A new and radically interdisciplinary approach to the question of the power of music - its aesthetic and historical interpretations and political uses - Enlightenment Orpheus will appeal to students and scholars in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, German studies, eighteenth-century history, and comparative studies.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Enlightenment Orpheus books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Enlightenment Orpheus

Enlightenment Orpheus

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 3410 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this in

Refugee Routes

Refugee Routes

File Size : 43,43 MB
Total View : 8916 Views
DOWNLOAD

The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Otto

Settler and Creole Reenactment

Settler and Creole Reenactment

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 2961 Views
DOWNLOAD

Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment - unexpected emotions, unplanned developments - and locates them in countries whe

What We Brought with Us

What We Brought with Us

File Size : 60,60 MB
Total View : 3082 Views
DOWNLOAD

Through a series of scholarly essays and biographical vignettes, this book shines an intimate spotlight on those who are driven from their homes.