In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German
Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as
Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music
in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early
popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a
strain of high camp-a mode of engagement that relishes both the
superficial and serious aspects of an aesthetic experience-that
runs antithetical to German Idealism's musical paradigms. By
considering the disservice done to Haydn by German Idealism
alongside the emergence of musical camp in American popular music,
Knapp outlines a common ground: a humanistically based aesthetic of
shared pleasure that points to ways in which camp receptive modes
might rejuvenate the original appeal of Haydn's music that has
mostly eluded audiences. In so doing, Knapp remaps the
historiographical modes and systems of critical evaluation that
dominate musicology while troubling the divide between serious and
popular music.
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