Brahms in the priesthood of art: gender and art religion in the nineteenth-century German musical imagination

Imperatives of Purity and Sensuality -- A Post-Romantic Priest of Music -- Priestesses of Art -- The Temptation of Opera -- Ambiguities of the Priesthood -- Prostitutes, Trauma, and Biographical Hermeneutics of the Fin-de-Siècle -- Epilogue. Musical Priesthood, Canon Formation, and the Regulation of...

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Auteur principal: McManus, Laurie (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: New York Oxford University Press [2021]
Dans:Année: 2021
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 / Musique classique / Art / Religion
B Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897 / Musique / Le religieux / Sexe / Réception <scientifique> / Histoire 1850-1910
RelBib Classification:AA Sciences des religions
AD Sociologie des religions
AG Vie religieuse
Sujets non-standardisés:B Music 18th century History and criticism
B Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Criticism and interpretation
B Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Appreciation History
B Music Religious aspects History
Accès en ligne: Table des matières
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Édition parallèle:Électronique
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Résumé:Imperatives of Purity and Sensuality -- A Post-Romantic Priest of Music -- Priestesses of Art -- The Temptation of Opera -- Ambiguities of the Priesthood -- Prostitutes, Trauma, and Biographical Hermeneutics of the Fin-de-Siècle -- Epilogue. Musical Priesthood, Canon Formation, and the Regulation of Performance.
"Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion) and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it focuses on the theme of the self-sacrificing musician devoted to his art, or "priest of music," with its quasi-mystical and German Romantic implications of purity seemingly at odds with the lived reality of Brahms's bourgeois existence"--
Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0190083271