| Description |
xi, 292 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Liberalism, autonomy and the social functions of art. Liberal individualism, perfectionism and aesthetic autonomy ; Music and Schillerian autonomy ; Choral music and socialization in the early nineteenth century : Nägeli and Zelter -- Radical and social aesthetics in the Vormärz. The trouble with Tannhäuser : artistic discourse as oppositional politics ; Left Hegelians and the politicization of literature and music ; Socialism in Vormärz literary and musical discourse -- Speaking for the Volk : music, politics and Vormärz festivals. Commemorative festivals and the cult of genius ; Lortzing, Mendelssohn and the Leipzig Gutenberg Festival ; An equal music? : singing festivals as mass and counter-culture ; To the artists (i) : Mendelssohn and the German-Flemish singing festival -- Revolutionary voices : blueprints for an aesthetic state. Musical reform and the state ; Wagner, Lortzing and the music of revolution -- Music and the politics of post-revolutionary culture. Between anarchism and socialism : Wagner's Zurich essays ; The politics of progressivism : Liszt and the New German School ; To the artists (ii) : Liszt and the Karlsruhe music festival ; Citizen Sachs? : a Wagnerian coda -- The song of the workers : idylls and activism. Socialization and self-help : workers' education societies ; Lassalle, Bülow and the end of bourgeois music ; Schiller's heirs : art, Bildung and proletarian identity. |
| Subject |
Music -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Music -- Political aspects. |
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Germany. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Music. |
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Music -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
| ISBN |
9780521110549 hardback |
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0521110548 hardback |
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