Moral fire [[electronic resource] ] : musical portraits from America's fin de siècle / / Joseph Horowitz
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Horowitz Joseph <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Moral fire [[electronic resource] ] : musical portraits from America's fin de siècle / / Joseph Horowitz
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 780.973/09034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Music - United States - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Music - United States - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Music patronage - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Music patronage - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Musical criticism - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Musical criticism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 19th century music |
| 20th century music | |
| american culture | |
| american history | |
| american music history | |
| american musical life | |
| american studies | |
| boston symphony orchestra | |
| charles ives | |
| classic music | |
| classical music | |
| classical orchestra | |
| cultural historians | |
| gilded age | |
| henry higginson | |
| henry krehbiel | |
| history of music | |
| human nature | |
| laura langford | |
| moral values | |
| music history and criticism | |
| music lovers | |
| music studies | |
| musicians and historians | |
| musicology | |
| turn of the century america | |
| us culture | |
| us history | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Henry Higginson: High Culture, High Finance, and Useful Citizenship -- Chapter 2. Henry Krehbiel: The German-American Transaction -- Chapter 3. Laura Holloway Langford: Servitude, Disquiet, and "The History of Womankind" -- Chapter 4. Charles Ives: Gentility and Rebellion -- Summation: Defining an American Fin de Siècle -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Joseph 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moral fire |
| ISBN: | 1-280-11649-8 |
| 9786613520784 | |
| 0-520-95186-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790008103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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