The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch - Paperback
by Abigail Fine
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Availability:In StockContributor:Abigail FineSeries:New Material Histories of MusicPublish date:2025-06-05Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226840444ISBN-10:226840441UPC:9780226840444Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, History, ChemistrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC825H5282
The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch
The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion--a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made composers into figureheads of a lasting Western canon. Alongside this institutional face of the canon was...
Series: New Material Histories of Music
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226840444ISBN-10:226840441UPC:9780226840444Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, History, ChemistrySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC825H5282
Abigail Fine is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Oregon.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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