Music and Image - Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (Book, New edition)

This innovative book examines the place and practice of musical life in eighteenth-century England among the upper classes. Focusing on the home, it shows how domestic music-making was shaped by socio-cultural forces while itself contributing to socio-cultural formation. Particular attention is given to visual representations of music in eighteenth-century paintings, drawings and prints. Other documentary material analyzed includes the music of the period, instruction manuals, tracts on education, courtesy and conduct books, sermons, diaries, letters and memoirs, fictional writing and journalism. Through these media the author examines the role played by construction, the human body via questions of physicality and sexuality in dancing, its agency in defining and replicating dominant ideologies of the family and its use in establishing and maintaining social and cultural boundaries.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1993
First published:	1988
Authors:	Richard Leppert
Dimensions:	244 x 172 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Book
Pages:	268
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-44854-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-44854-9
Barcode:	9780521448543

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