The Work of Music: Labor and Creativity in Germany's Long Nineteenth Century
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Availability:In StockContributor:Celia ApplegateSeries:George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and IdeasPublish date:10/7/2025Pages:164
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299353308ISBN-10:299353303UPC:9780299353308Book Category:History, Music, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History & Criticism, Labor & Industrial RelationsBook Topic:GermanySize:9.13 x 6.06 x 0.55 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCQNZPWS68
The Work of Music: Labor and Creativity in Germany's Long Nineteenth Century
In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of music and musicians, the various jobs they performed, the work music did in society, the observations and commentaries of contemporaries on the shape and function of musical life, and the work...
Series: George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299353308ISBN-10:299353303UPC:9780299353308Book Category:History, Music, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, History & Criticism, Labor & Industrial RelationsBook Topic:GermanySize:9.13 x 6.06 x 0.55 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCQNZPWS68
Celia Applegate is William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of History and a professor of German studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat, The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme, and Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion" as well as a coeditor (with Pamela Potter) of Music and...
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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