Format:
x, 228 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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25 cm
ISBN:
9780190631222
Content:
Examines the vicissitudes of Debussy's posthumous reception in the 1920s and '30s, and analyzes the confluence of factors that helped to overturn the initial backlash against his music. Rather than viewing Debussy's artistic greatness as the cause of his enduring legacy, the author considers it instead as an effect, tracing the manifold processes that shaped how his music was received and how its aesthetic worth was consolidated. Speaking to readers both within and beyond the domain of French music and culture, this study enters into a dialogue with research in the sociology of reputation and commemoration, examining the collective nature of the processes of artistic consecration. By analyzing the cultural forces that came to bear on the formation of Debussy's legacy, the author contributes to a greater understanding of the inter-war period - the cultural politics, debates, and issues that confronted musicians in 1920s and '30s Paris - and offers a musicological perspective on the subject of reputation building, to date underrepresented in recent writings on reputation and commemoration in the humanities. This book is an important new study, groundbreaking in its methodology and in its approach to musical influence and cultural consecration
Content:
Acknowledgments -- The construction of reputation and the case of Debussy -- Reputational entrepreneurs -- Debussyism, anti-Debussyism, neoclassicism -- The controversy over the Ode âa la France -- Collective memory and the material shaping of Debussy's legacy -- Appendix: Le Floriláege de Claude Debussy -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190631246
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Wheeldon, Marianne Debussy's legacy and the construction of reputation New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780190631253
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Rezeption
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Geschichte 1920-1940
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