Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature
Subtitle: opera · orchestra · phonograph · film
By: Richard Leppert
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780520287372
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy and aesthetics; Modernism (Music); Social aspects; Nature in motion pictures; Nature in music; Opera; Music; Days of heaven (Motion picture); Sound recordings; Fitzcarraldo (Motion picture); History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity and opera; nature and redemption. The civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The girl of the golden West; title: Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo; title: Voicing subjectivity. Excursus : opera, monumentality, and looking at looking; title: Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of musical listening, 1904-1929; title: Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide; title: Modernity, nature, and dystopia. Excursus : natural beauty/art beauty; title: Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur); title: Conclusion. Acoustic invocations of crisis and hope.