LEADER 04075nam 2200745 450 001 9910460843203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-96252-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520962521 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459535 035 $a(EBL)1991890 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12630305 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11530640 035 $a(PQKB)11524335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1991890 035 $a(OCoLC)960977351 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47183 035 $a(DE-B1597)521176 035 $a(OCoLC)917153659 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520962521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1991890 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11085799 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL819933 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459535 100 $a20150310h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature $eopera, orchestra, phonograph, film /$fRichard Leppert 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-28737-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe civilizing process : music and the aesthetics of time-space relations in The Girl of the golden West -- Opera, aesthetic violence, and the imposition of modernity : Fitzcarraldo -- Caruso, phonography, and operatic fidelities : regimes of music listening, 1904-1929 -- Aesthetic meanderings of the sonic psyche : three operas, two notes, and one ending at the boundary of the Great Divide -- Sound, subjectivity, and death : Days of heaven (promesse du bonheur) -- Conclusion : acoustic invocations of crisis and hope. 330 $a"The book 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 nascent twentieth 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"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics 606 $aModernism (Music)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aOpera$xSocial aspects 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects 606 $aSound recordings$xSocial aspects 606 $aNature in music 606 $aNature in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMusic$xPhilosophy and aesthetics. 615 0$aModernism (Music)$xHistory 615 0$aOpera$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSound recordings$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aNature in music. 615 0$aNature in motion pictures. 676 $a780.9/04 700 $aLeppert$b Richard D.$01046241 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460843203321 996 $aAesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature$92473006 997 $aUNINA