Beethoven in America
By: Michael Broyles
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780253357045
Subjects: Composers; Music; Popular culture; Criticism and interpretation; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Arrival and sacralization. Arrival in America ; Defining Beethoven ; Deification and spiritualization; title: 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; title: Part 3. Beethoven and the dramatic arts. Beethoven on the silver screen ; Beethoven's music in film ; Beethoven in the theater; title: Part 4. Beyond classicism : Beethoven in American society and culture. "Beethoven was Black" : why does It matter? ; Beethoven in popular music ; Beethoven everywhere.