The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body - Brossura

Leppert, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520203429 ISBN 13: 9780520203426

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1995

Riassunto

Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from 1600 to 1900. And his particular interest is the relation of music to the human body. He argues that musical practices, invariably linked to the body, are inseparable from the prevailing discourses of power, knowledge, identity, desire, and sexuality.

With the support of 100 illustrations, Leppert addresses music and the production of racism, the hoarding of musical sound in a culture of scarcity, musical consumption and the policing of gender, the domestic piano and misogyny, music and male anxiety, and the social silencing of music. His unexpected yoking of musicology and art history, in particular his original insights into the relationships between music, visual representation, and the history of the body, make exciting reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in society and the arts.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Richard Leppert is Professor of Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (1989).

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

"[Leppert's] originality is immensely encouraging to those of us who are convinced that musicology is undergoing a paradigmatic change." Derek B. Scott, author of The Singing Bourgeois

"A wonderfully stimulating book. . . . Will be of great importance to musicologists and students of culture generally." Ruth Solie, editor of Musicology and Difference

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520203429
• ISBN 13: 9780520203426
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 346
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile