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Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature: Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film
Richard Leppert
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Hardback. Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter. Num Pages: 348 pages, 81 color, 61 b/w, 19 music examples, 4 tables. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 188 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1102.
Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies 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 new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas cultural, social, and personal associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical ... Read more
Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies 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 new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas cultural, social, and personal associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520287372
SKU
V9780520287372
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About Richard Leppert
Richard Leppert is Regents Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of many books, including The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body and Art and the Committed Eye; he is also the editor of Adorno's Essays on Music and coeditor of Beyond the Soundtrack.
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