UID:
almafu_9960943600002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-23229-0
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1-009-23228-2
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1-009-23232-0
Content:
Music was everywhere in ancient Rome. Wherever one went in the sprawling city, the sound of singing and piping, drumming and strumming was never far out of earshot. This book examines the role of music in Roman politics and society, focusing on the period from the Roman conquest of Greece in the second century BCE to the end of the reign of Nero in 68 CE. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts, inscriptions and material artefacts, Harry Morgan uncovers the tensions between elite and popular attitudes towards music and shows how music was exploited as a tool by political leaders and emperors. Far from being a marginal aspect of daily life, music was fundamental to Roman political culture and social relations, shaping debates about class, gender and ethnicity. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient music and Roman history.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2022).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Approaching Roman Music -- Sources of Evidence -- Terminology -- Greek and Etruscan Influences on Roman Music -- Sound, Space and Social Control -- Sensing Music, Embodying Music -- The Status of Musicians -- Chapter Outline -- 1 The Games of L. Anicius Gallus and the Cultural Politics of Music in the Second Century BCE -- Triumphal Politics and Spectacle Culture in Mid-Republican Rome -- Battle of the Bands: Anicius' Martial Soundtrack -- Music and Morality in Polybius' Histories -- Scipio, Cato and the Roman Opposition to Greek Music -- Banning the Ludus Talarius: A Case of Roman Musical Censorship? -- Conclusion -- 2 Popular Music and Popular Politics in the Late Republic -- Cicero on the Music of the Roman Theatre -- The Musical Experience of Pompey's Theatre -- The Role of Music in Late-Republican Oratory and Rhetorical Invective -- Gaius Gracchus and the Fistula -- Publius Clodius: Harpist, Chorus-Leader, Entertainer Extraordinaire -- Nec Tam Musicus: Piso, Philodemus and the Epicureans -- The Onos Lyras: Varro's Satire on Music -- Conclusion -- 3 Augustus, Apollo's Lyre and the Harmony of the Principate -- Apollo Citharoedus on the Palatine -- Apollo Citharoedus and the Commemoration of Actium -- Antony, Cleopatra and the Triumph over Dionysian Music -- Tuning the World -- Sound, Ritual and the Citharodic Experience -- A 'Golden Age' of Music? -- Conclusion -- 4 Nero and the Age of Musomania -- 'O Apollo, O Augustus': Making Sense of a Musical Emperor -- The Master's Songbook: Neroniana Cantica and Popular Music at Rome -- Water-Organs, Bagpipes and the Lure of the Arena -- Musomania in a Young Man's World -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009232333
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009232326
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