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The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
Christina Bashford
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Description for The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
Hardback. Opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products were shaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce. Num Pages: 368 pages, 43 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVGC5; AVGC6; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 768.
Opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products were shaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce. Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to resist full investigation, particularly in the musical sphere. The Idea of Art Music in aCommercial World, 1800-1930, is a collection of essays that present fresh insights into the ways in which art music, i.e., classical music, functioned beyond its newly established aesthetic purpose (art for art's sake) and intersected with commercial agendas in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ... Read more
Opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products were shaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce. Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to resist full investigation, particularly in the musical sphere. The Idea of Art Music in aCommercial World, 1800-1930, is a collection of essays that present fresh insights into the ways in which art music, i.e., classical music, functioned beyond its newly established aesthetic purpose (art for art's sake) and intersected with commercial agendas in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270651
SKU
V9781783270651
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Reviews for The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
These essays [...] trace the uneasy connection between so-called art music and commerical value. [...] The footnoting for all the articles is superb and guides the reader to further fascinating sources.
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