Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature : opera, orchestra, phonograph, film / by Leppert, Richard D.

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.…”
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Music, the arts, and ideas patterns and predictions in twentieth-century culture / by Meyer, Leonard B.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Contemporary music theoretical and philosophical perspectives /

Subjects: “…Music 20th century Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Music and modernism, c. 1849-1950

Subjects: “…Music 20th century Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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French cultural politics & music from the Dreyfus affair to the First World War / by Fulcher, Jane F.

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.…”
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Absolute music, mechanical reproduction by Ashby, Arved Mark

Subjects: “…Music Philosophy and aesthetics.…”
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