Debussys Critics Sound Affect and the Experience of Modernism
human person, the critics who wrote about Debussy's music in the Parisian press-continually returning to this music's nebulous relationship to sensation and sensibilit-attempted to articulate a music aesthetic appropriate to the fully embodied, material self of psychological modernism. While
scholarship on French music in this period has often emphasized its affinities with other art forms, such as Impressionist painting and Symbolist poetry, Debussy's Critics demonstrates that a preoccupation with the specifically sonic materiality of Debussy's music, informed by late
nineteenth-century scientific discourses on affect, perception, and cognition, was central to this music's historical intervention. Foregrounding the dynamic exchange between sounds and ideas, this book reveals the disorienting and bewildering experience of listening to Debussy's music, which
compelled its early audiences to reimagine the most fundamental premises of the European art-music tradition.
Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | MUS |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0190847247 |
Isbn 13 | 9780190847241 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.93" H x 00.06" L x 50.00" W |
Page Count | 328 |
Alexandra Kieffer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2014 and spent the 2014-2015 academic year as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. Her work explores intersections between musical
culture and physiologies of affect, listening, and sensation in Belle poque France.