| Description |
x, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Arrival and sacralization. Arrival in America ; Defining Beethoven ; Deification and spiritualization -- Part 2. Science, scholars, and critics. Beethoven, modernism, and science ; "The warm tropical summer of sketch research" : Beethoven and the Cold War ; Reactions to modernism : musical meaning and the classical canon -- Part 3. Beethoven and the dramatic arts. Beethoven on the silver screen ; Beethoven's music in film ; Beethoven in the theater -- Part 4. Beyond classicism : Beethoven in American society and culture. "Beethoven was Black" : why does It matter? ; Beethoven in popular music ; Beethoven everywhere. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Music -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Popular culture. |
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History. |
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Austria. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780253357045 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253357047 cloth alkaline paper |
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