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Enlightenment Orpheus - The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Hardcover)
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Enlightenment Orpheus - The Power of Music in Other Worlds (Hardcover)
Series: New Cultural History of Music
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The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea
that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies,
civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems
to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged
at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines
this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of
an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Agnew persuasively connects the English
traveler and music scholar Charles Burney with the ancient myth of
Orpheus. She uses Burney as a guide through wide-ranging
discussions of eighteenth-century musical travel, views on music's
curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about
cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was
central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such
issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity,
Agnew adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has
typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the
aural. She also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed
in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational
network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in
generating knowledge at the time. A new and radically
interdisciplinary approach to the question of the power of music -
its aesthetic and historical interpretations and political uses -
Enlightenment Orpheus will appeal to students and scholars in
historical musicology, ethnomusicology, German studies,
eighteenth-century history, and comparative studies.
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