Making Light : Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism /
Traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. The author identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and oper...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- Approaching the absolute
- Idealizing music
- Haydn's difference
- Entertaining possibilities in Haydn's symphonies
- Haydn, the string quartet, and the (d)evolution of the chamber ideal
- New world dualities
- Popular music contra German idealism: Anglo-American rebellions from minstrelsy to camp
- "Popular music" qua German idealism: authenticity and its outliers
- Musical virtues and vices in the latter-day new world
- Appendix A : More extended musical examples
- Appendix B : Listing of video examples from films.