Sovereign feminine : music and gender in eighteenth-century Germany /
In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity - a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal - linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender, and art. In this book, the author restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 326 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-319) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520954762 0520954769 1299444415 9781299444416 0520273842 9780520273849 |