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The Oxford handbook of music listening in the 19th and 20th centuries /

This handbook takes on the task of examining the history of music listening over the past two hundred years. It uses the "art of listening" as a leitmotif encompassing an entanglement of interdependent practices and discourses about a learnable mode of perception. The art of listening firs...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thorau, Christian (Editor), Ziemer, Hansjakob (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
Subjects:
Concerts > History > 19th century.
Concerts > History > 20th century.
Listening.
Music > Social aspects > History > 19th century.
Music > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Art of Listening and its Histories: An Introduction / Christian Thorau, Hansjakob Ziemer
  • Amateurs and Auditors: Listening to the British Musical Festival, 1810-1835 / Charles Edward McGuire
  • Designated Attention: The Transformation of Music Announcements in Leipzig's Concert Life, 1781-1850 / Anselma Lanzendörfer
  • The Well-Mannered Auditor: Zones of Attention and the Imposition of Silence in the Salon of the Nineteenth Century / James Deaville
  • The Crisis of Listening in Interwar Germany / Hansjakob Ziemer
  • Architectural Acoustics and the Trained Ear in the Arts. A Journey from 1730 to 1830 / Viktoria Tkaczyk, Stefan Weinzierl
  • Music in the Air - Listening in the Streets: Popular Music and Urban Listening Habits in Berlin around 1900 / Daniel Morat
  • Between large capacities and sociological aesthetics: Musical theatre buildings in modernized Symmetries in Spaces, Symmetries in Listening: Musical Theater Buildings in Europe around 1900 / Gesa Zur Nieden
  • From the Music-Telegraph to the Opera-Telephone-Listening to Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Sonja Neumann
  • First Re-Creations: Psychology, Phonographs, and New Cultures of Listening at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Alexandra Hui
  • Between Personal Experience and Public Discourse: Reproduced Music and the Politics of Listening in the Twentieth Century / Axel Volmar
  • Who Cares if you Listen? Researching Audience Behaviour(s) in Nineteenth-Century Paris / Katharine Ellis
  • Capturing the Landscape Within: On Writing the History of Experience / James Johnson
  • Listening and Possessing / Fred Everett Maus
  • Is Listening to Music an Art-or Not? / Wolfgang Gratzer
  • The Intimate Art of Listening: Music in the Private Sphere during the Nineteenth Century / Wolfgang Fuhrmann
  • The Problem of Eclectic Listening in French and German Concerts, 1860-1910 / William Weber
  • Listening as a Practice of Everyday Life: The Munch Philharmonic Orchestra and its Audiences in the Second World War / Neil Gregor
  • Turning Liebhaber into Kenner: Forkel's Lectures on the Art of Listening, c. 1780-1785 / Mark Evan Bonds
  • / Christiane Tewinkel
  • Concert Listening the British Way? Program Notes and Victorian Culture / Christina Bashford
  • / Christian Thorau.