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Enlightenment Orpheus
By Agnew
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Description
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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
278
Release Date:
2008-05-01
Publication Date:
2011-08-29
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0195336666
ISBN13:
9780195336665
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
584 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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