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Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature - Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film (Hardcover)
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Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature - Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film (Hardcover)
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Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human
character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music
(especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural
agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and
cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what
followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are
central: the tensions and traumas cultural, social, and personal
associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its
engagement and representation in music and film; and the more
general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the
development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role
played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the
book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature,
particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and
articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of
fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers
the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of
aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact
of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be
no turning back.
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