LEADER 03612nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910461735203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-11649-8 010 $a9786613520784 010 $a0-520-95186-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520951860 035 $a(CKB)2670000000155950 035 $a(EBL)869323 035 $a(OCoLC)779828969 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11374952 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567241 035 $a(PQKB)10840001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC869323 035 $a(DE-B1597)520441 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520951860 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL869323 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539242 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL352078 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000155950 100 $a20111101d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoral fire$b[electronic resource] $emusical portraits from America's fin de sie?cle /$fJoseph Horowitz 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26744-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographic references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$tPrologue --$tChapter 1. Henry Higginson: High Culture, High Finance, and Useful Citizenship --$tChapter 2. Henry Krehbiel: The German-American Transaction --$tChapter 3. Laura Holloway Langford: Servitude, Disquiet, and "The History of Womankind" --$tChapter 4. Charles Ives: Gentility and Rebellion --$tSummation: Defining an American Fin de Siècle --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aJoseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890's) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities-Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives-whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love. 606 $aMusic$zUnited States$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic$zUnited States$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic patronage$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMusic patronage$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMusical criticism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMusical criticism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMusic patronage$xHistory 615 0$aMusic patronage$xHistory 615 0$aMusical criticism$xHistory 615 0$aMusical criticism$xHistory 676 $a780.973/09034 700 $aHorowitz$b Joseph$f1948-$01036002 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461735203321 996 $aMoral fire$92456050 997 $aUNINA