Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe

Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe

Author: Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosálová

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3110494779

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The book analyses the collective career of the artistic profession in Brno and Vilnius and the necessity to copy the behavior of the elites of the Old Regime. The "noble" values, which shaped the artistic careers in the 19th century press, were charity, good taste, cosmopolitism and patriotism. The newspaper discourse disposed potential to integrate and to smuggle novelties by exposing old values.


Music and Some Highly Musical People

Music and Some Highly Musical People

Author: James M. Trotter

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13:

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"Music and Some Highly Musical People" by James M. Trotter is a history of African-American music. Trotter's work is highly reflective of the society in which it was written. For example, Trotter's coverage of classical music was influenced by a movement to raise classical music and its performance to the level of religious service. A leader in this movement was white journalist John Sullivan Dwight. With this reverence on classical music, Trotter's description of classical soloists such as Thomas Wiggins and Sisieretta Jones become examples of racial culture and uplift through the musical genre itself.