Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism - Culture as Migration (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)

This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the twenty-first centuries AD, on locations as remote as Alexandria and Australia, on writers as different as Virgil and V.S.Naipaul, Arnold and Achebe, and on musicians as diverse as Bach and Bartok, Purcell and Steve Reich. Across thirteen chapters, the study explores the interpenetration of all forms of human expression, the fallacy of 'national' traditions and limiting conceptions of regional character. The result is an exploration of artistic and intellectual endeavour that is particularly welcome in the current political climate, encouraging us to view history in ways informed by our contemporary demographic and cultural concerns. Taken either as a series of interrelated case studies, or else as an evolving and sequential argument, this book is vital reading for scholars of music, literature, and cultural and social history.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	June 2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Robert Fraser
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	211
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-88610-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	3-319-88610-X
Barcode:	9783319886107

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