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The Drowned Muse
Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Author : Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Publisher :
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198708629
The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine" (the Unknown Woman of the Seine), and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist tending to her unidentified corpse at the Paris Morgue was supposedly so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. This unknown girl, also called "The Mona Lisa of Suicide," has since become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s, and continues to reverberate today. Aby Warburg defines art history as "a ghost story for grown-ups." This study is simlarly "a ghost story for grown-ups," narrating the aura of a cultural object that crosses temporal, geographical, and linguistic frontiers. It views the "Inconnue" as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It also investigates how the mask's metamorphoses reflect major shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, approaching the "Iconnue" as an entry point to understand a phenomenon characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century modernity: the translatability of media. Doing so, this study mobilizes discourses surrounding the "Inconnue," casting them as points of negotiation through which we may consider the modern age.
Kurt Weill
Jürgen Schebera
Author : Jürgen Schebera
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300072846
Examining the life of Kurt Weill, this text explores the phases of the composer's life, from his childhood as the son of a cantor in the Jewish section of Dessau, Germany, to his renunciation of Germany in 1933. It also looks at his emigration to America (1935) and his premature death (1950).
Love Song
Ethan Mordden
Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312676573
A noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the 20th-century's most influential artists. Mordden shows the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in a dual biography scored to music from Weil's greatest triumphs.
A History of Everyday Things
Daniel Roche
Author : Daniel Roche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521633598
Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without anyone dreaming of acquiring new ones. How, therefore, have people in the modern world become 'prisoners of objects', as Rousseau put it? The celebrated French cultural historian Daniel Roche answers this fundamental question using insights from economics, politics, demography and geography, as well as his own extensive historical knowledge. Professor Roche places familiar objects and commodities - houses, clothes, water - in their wider historical and anthropological contexts, and explores the origins of some of the daily furnishings of modern life. A History of Everyday Things is a pioneering essay that sheds light on the origins of the consumer society and its social and political repercussions, and thereby the birth of the modern world.
Weill's Musical Theater
Stephen Hinton
Author : Stephen Hinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520951832
In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater’s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill’s experiments with a range of genres—from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera—became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"—one European, the other American—Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill’s artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson.
Song
Carol Kimball
Author : Carol Kimball
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476853525
(Book). Carol Kimball's comprehensive survey of art song literature has been the principal one-volume American source on the topic. Now back in print after an absence of several years, this newly revised edition includes biographies and discussions of the work of 150 composers of various nationalities, as well as articles on styles of various schools of composition.
Speak Low (When You Speak Love)
Kurt Weill
Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520212404
Selected letters trace the relationship of the composer and actress, who were married for twenty-four years
From Studio to Stage
Barbara M. Doscher
Author : Barbara M. Doscher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Vocal music
ISBN : 0810842394
The late Doscher was a singing teacher at the U. of Colorado-Boulder. This volume compiles the note cards on songs and arias that she composed in order to aid her teaching. The entries are broadly organized by type of piece, with notes on difficulty, author, keys available, ranges, tessitura, voice types, and other comments included. Five indexes allow readers to find compositions by composer, lyricist, title, range, and difficulty level. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Communards and Other Cultural Histories
Adrian Rifkin
Author : Adrian Rifkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004326227
This collection of some 32 articles and essays by Adrian Rifkin were written over a period of forty years. It contains innovative and influential studies of the archives of art, urbanism, music and popular life in France and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arranged around a number of studies of the representation of the Paris Commune, the book also contains chapters on Edith Piaf’s role in French culture, histories of art education, opera and queer life in the city as well as analytical accounts of the commodity and cultural theory in Adorno and Benjamin. An extended introduction by Steve Edwards works over the questions of uneven time in Marxist cultural theory and the disciplinary formations that underpin many of Rifkin’s essays.