The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body
- Author: Leppert, Richard
[This] multicultural and multidisciplinary study of the body as 'sight' and 'site' teaches us how to read paintings that deal with music and human activity as signifiers of cultural status and... — More…
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Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments Translator's Note Abbreviations Introduction (by Richard Leppert)
- 1. Locating Music: Society, Modernity, and the New Commentary (by Richard Leppert) Music, Language, and Composition (1956) Why Is the New Art So Hard to Understand?* (1931) On the Contemporary Relationship of Philosophy and Music* (1953) On the Problem o
- 2. Culture, Technology, and Listening Commentary (by Richard Leppert) The Radio Symphony (1941) The Curves of the Needle (1927/1965) The Form of the Phonograph Record (1934) Opera and the Long-Playing Record (1969) On the Fetish-Character in Music and th
- 3. Music and Mass Culture Commentary (by Richard Leppert) What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts (1945) On the Social Situation in Music (1932) On Popular Music [With the assistance of George Simpson] (1941) On Jazz (1936) Farewell to Jazz* (1933)
- 4. Composition, Composers, and Works Commentary (by Richard Leppert) Late Style in Beethoven (1937) Alienated Masterpiece: The Missa Solemnis (1959) Wagner's Relevance for Today (1963) Mahler Today* (1930) Marginala on Mahler* (1936) The Opera Wozzeck* (