The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Sarah Collins editor Paul Watt editor Michael Allis editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:30th Sep '20

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century cover

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.

Perhaps most crucially, the centering of social and cultural histories of music from an international perspective in a handbook of this scope and status benefits both musicology and history, offering and legitimizing exciting new directions for both. * Rosemary Golding, The Open University, VICTORIAN STUDIES *
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century provides a rich overview of current debates on nineteenth-century music scholarship. The book goes beyond the realms of traditional musicology and instead takes a more interdisciplinary approach to show how music in the nineteenth century permeated culture, intellectual practices, and a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, art, literature, religion, and science. While the breadth of the topics covered in this Handbook is particularly ambitious, the editors have done well to organise a cohesive edited collection that can be read from beginning to end. * Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, British Association for Victorian Studies Newsletter *
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, edited by musicologists Paul Watt, Sarah Collins and Michael Allis, and published by Oxford University Press, is a commendable and recommendable reference work on the history of music and musical thought and feeling in Europe in the last two centuries. * Juan Carlos Tellechea, Mundo Clásico [translated] *

ISBN: 9780190616922

Dimensions: 249mm x 178mm x 38mm

Weight: 1111g

568 pages