An edition of Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature
(2015)
Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature
opera · orchestra · phonograph · film
by Richard D. Leppert
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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.
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Motion pictures, Philosophy and aesthetics, Modernism (Music), Social aspects, Nature in motion pictures, Nature in music, Opera, Music, Days of heaven (Motion picture), Sound recordings, Fitzcarraldo (Motion picture), History, Puccini, giacomo, 1858-1924, Modernism (music), Motion pictures, social aspects, Program music, Fanciulla del West (Puccini, Giacomo)People
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Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature: opera · orchestra · phonograph · film
2015
in English
0520287371 9780520287372
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Table of Contents
Modernity and opera; nature and redemption. 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
Voicing subjectivity. Excursus : opera, monumentality, and looking at looking
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
Modernity, nature, and dystopia. Excursus : natural beauty/art beauty
Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur)
Conclusion. Acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
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