Full Description
Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, scholarly interest in music flourished in fields as disparate as philosophy and natural science, dramatically shifting the relationship between music and the academy. An exciting and much-needed new volume, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century draws deserved attention to the people and institutions of this period who worked to produce these writings. Editors Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis, along with an international slate of contributors, discuss music's fascinating and unexpected interactions with debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture. Part I of the handbook establishes the historical context for the intellectual world of the period, including the significant genres and disciplines of its music literature, while Part II focuses on the century's institutions and networks - from journalists to monasteries - that circulated ideas about music throughout the world. Finally, Part III assesses how the music research of the period reverberates in the present, connecting studies in aestheticism, cosmopolitanism, and intertextuality to their nineteenth-century origins. The Handbook challenges Western music history's traditionally sole focus on musical work by treating writings about music as valuable cultural artifacts in themselves. Engaging and comprehensive, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century brings together a wealth of new interdisciplinary research into this critical area of study.
Contents
Introduction: Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis
Part I: TEXTS AND PRACTICES
1. History, Historicism, Historiography
Kevin Karnes
2. Criticism
Noel Verzosa
3. Figures and Forms of Analysis Practice
Rémy Campos
4. Biography and Life-Writing
Christopher Wiley
5. Travel Writing
Michael Allis
6. Philosophy and Aesthetics
Lawrence Kramer
7. Fiction and Poetry
Michael Halliwell
8. Ephemera
Catherine Massip
Part II: NETWORKS AND INSTITUTIONS
9. Newspapers, Little Magazines, and Anthologies
Paul Watt
10. Learned Societies, Institutions, Associations, and Clubs
Jeremy Dibble
11. Churches and Devotional Practice
Martin Clarke
12. Libraries and Archives
Matthias Lundberg
13. Universities and Conservatories
Peter Tregear
14. The Concert Series
Simon McVeigh
Part III: DISCOURSES
15. Musical Canons
William Weber
16. Landscape and Ecology
Daniel M. Grimley
17. The National and the Universal
Sarah Collins
18. Science and Religion
Bennett Zon
19. Popular Song and Working-Class Culture
Gillian M. Rodger
20. Emotions
Michael Spitzer
21. Time and Temporality
Benedict Taylor
22. Ethics
Tomas McAuley
23. Music Scholarship and Disciplinarity
Michel Duchesneau
