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Moral Fire : Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle.

Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horowitz, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Prologue: Screaming Wagnerites and America's Fin de Siècle; 1. Henry Higginson: High Culture, High Finance, and Useful Citizenship; 2. Henry Krehbiel: The German-American Transaction; 3. Laura Holloway Langford: Servitude, Disquiet, and "The History of Womankind"; 4. Charles Ives: Gentility and Rebellion; Summation: Defining an American Fin de Siècle; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.