Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera, orchestra, phonograph, film /
"The book 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. Three t...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of music listening, 1904-1929
- Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide
- Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur)
- Conclusion : acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.