The Lindström Project
Author: Christiane Hofer
Publisher:
Published: 2016
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ISBN-13: 9783950290622
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The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Carol E. Harrison
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0191542938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, Carol E. Harrison addresses the construction of class and gender identities. In their gentlemen's clubs, learned societies, musical groups, gardening clubs, and charitable associations, bourgeois Frenchmen defined a social order in which the atomized individuals of revolutionarly law could find places for themselves in reconstituted social groups and hierarchies. The practices of sociability reflected a bourgeois view of society as harmonious rather than torn by conflict. The potentially universal virtues of bourgeois masculinity provided a basis for a consensus that could protect social order from the destructive competitiveness of French political life and the industrializing economy. The sociable interaction of male citizens was the crucial bridge between the destruction of Frances's old regime and the development of a mature industrial class society.
Repeated Takes
Author: Michael Chanan
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1789607078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepeated Takes is the first general book on the history of the recording industry, covering the entire field from Edison's talking tin foil of 1877 to the age of the compact disc. Michael Chanan considers the record as a radically new type of commodity which turned the intangible performance of music into a saleable object, and describes the upset which this caused in musical culture. He asks: What goes on in a recording studio? How does it affect the music? Do we listen to music differently because of reproduction? Repeated Takes relates the growth and development of the industry, both technically and economically; the effects of the microphone on interpretation in both classical and popular music; and the impact of all these factors on musical styles and taste. This highly readable book also traces the connections between the development of recording and the rise of new forms of popular music, and discusses arguments among classical musicians about microphone technique and studio practice.
Objects and Others
Author: George W. Stocking
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1988-11-09
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0299103234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. Objects and Others, the third volume, focuses on a number of questions relating to the history of museums and material culture studies: the interaction of museum arrangement and anthropological theory; the tension between anthropological research and popular education; the contribution of museum ethnography to aesthetic practice; the relationship of humanistic and anthropological culture, and of ethnic artifact and fine art; and, more generally, the representation of culture in material objects. As the first work to cover the development of museum anthropology since the mid-nineteenth century, it will be of great interest and value not only to anthropologist, museologists, and historians of science and the social sciences, but also to those interested in "primitive" art and its reception in the Western world.
History, Experience and Cultural Studies
Author: Michael Pickering
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 1997-10-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0333621107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPickering explores the attenuated relationship between social history and cultural theory, reappraising some of the positions and issues which have led to the impasse between them. He highlights the importance of using a combined approach.
Sounds of the Metropolis
Author: Derek B. Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0199718830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. He explains the popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise, which ultimately resulted in a polarization between musical entertainment (or "commercial" music) and "serious" art. He focuses on the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at that time, and that continued to have an impact upon popular music in the next century. By the end of the nineteenth century, popular music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques, forms, and devices. As Scott shows, "popular" refers here, for the first time, not only to the music's reception, but also to the presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning of "popular" provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore the signs of the popular-which they regarded as fashionable and facile, rather than progressive and serious. A fresh and persuasive consideration of the genesis of popular music on its own terms, Sounds of the Metropolis breaks new ground in the study of music, cultural sociology, and history.
Takarazuka
Author: Jennifer Robertson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-07-21
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0520211510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, This text explores how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism and popular culture in 20th-century Japan.
Victorian Soundscapes
Author: John M. Picker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-09-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780195151916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar from the hushed restraint we associate with the Victorians, their world pulsated with sound. This book shows how, in more ways than one, Victorians were hearing things. John Picker draws upon literary and scientific works to recapture the Victorian sense of aural discovery.
Spectacular Realities
Author: Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0520221680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An exciting, innovative, and significant work. The author points to how the crowd experience transcended class and gender divisions and was transformed from acts of collective violence into acts of collective consumption."—Michael B. Miller, author of Shanghai on the Métro
Culture and Materialism
Author: Raymond Williams
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1839763078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. Raymond Williams is a towering presence in cultural studies, most importantly as the founder of the apporach that has come to be known as "cultural materialism." Yet Williams's method was always open-ended and fluid, and this volume collects together his most significant work from over a twenty-year peiod in which he wrestled with the concepts of materialism and culture and their interrelationship. Aside from his more directly theoretical texts, however, case-studies of theatrical naturalism, the Bloomsbury group, advertising, science fiction, and the Welsh novel are also included as illustrations of the method at work. Finally, Williams's identity as an active socialist, rather than simply an academic, is captured by two unambiguously political pieces on the past, present and future of Marxism.
