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Author: Christopher Morris
ISBN: 9781138279261

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Título Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema
Autor Christopher Morris
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Páginas 220
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Routledge
Fecha de publicación 2016-11-16
ISBN 9781138279261 / 1138279269
Peso 0.69 libras (0.31 kg)
Dimensiones 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.46 pulgadas (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.17 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code 781.59

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Dr Christopher Morris is Lecturer in Music at University College Cork and teaches in the university's interdisciplinary programmes in film studies and digital arts. He has published widely on opera, new media and film music, including Reading Opera Between the Lines (2002). Current research projects include a critical analysis of opera on video and an investigation of contemporary staging practices in opera.

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Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema

de Christopher Morris

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9781138279261 / 1138279269

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Paperback / softback. New. Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental health. The arts were critical to this project, none more so than music, which occupied a similar space in Austro-German culture: autonomous, pure, sublime. In Modernism and the Cult of Mountains opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of contesting ideas about politics, nature, technology and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera's reflexive engagement with the identity and limits of its constituent media, not… Leer más