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Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
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In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism's significance for
styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes
musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the
longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic
value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in
gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into
sentimentalism's place in musical constructions of emotion, taste,
genre, gender, desire, and authenticity. The contexts encompass
diverse musical communities, performing spaces, and listening
practices, including the nineteenth-century salon and concert hall,
the cinema, the intimate stage persona of the singer-songwriter,
and the homely ambiguities of 'easy' listening. Interdisciplinary
insights inform discussions of musical form, affect, appropriation,
nationalisms, psychologies, eco-sentimentalism, humanitarianism,
consumerism, and subject positions, with a particular emphasis on
masculine sentimentalities. Music is drawn from violin repertory
associated with Joseph Joachim, the piano music of Chopin,
Schumann, and Liszt, sentimental waltzes from Schubert to Ravel,
concert music by Bartok, Szymanowski and Gorecki, the
Merchant-Ivory adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Antonio Carlos
Jobim's bossa nova, and songs by Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach,
Carole King, Barry Manilow and Jimmy Webb. The book will attract
readers interested in both the role of music in the history of
emotion and the persistence and diversity of sentimental arts after
their flowering in the eighteenth-century age of sensibility.
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