Le Tumulte Noir
Title | Le Tumulte Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Jody Blake |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780271017532 |
Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.
Orestes
Title | Orestes PDF eBook |
Author | Voltaire |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2013-08-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1627933212 |
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Fashion and Modernity
Title | Fashion and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Breward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world.
Resonant Recoveries
Title | Resonant Recoveries PDF eBook |
Author | Jillian C. Rogers |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190658290 |
"French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars illustrates that coping with trauma was a central concern for French musicians active after World War I. The losses and violent warfare of World War I shaped how interwar French musicians-from those fighting in the trenches and working in military hospitals to more well-known musicians-engaged with music. Situated at the intersections of musicology, history, sound and performance studies, and psychology and trauma studies, Resonant Recoveries argues that modernists' compositions and musical activities were sonorous locations for managing and performing trauma. Through analysis of archival materials, French medical, philosophical, and literary texts, and the music produced between the wars, this book illuminates how music emerged during World War I as an embodied technology of consolation. Resonant Recoveries demonstrates that music making came to be understood by French interwar musicians as a consolatory practice that enhanced their abilities to remember lost loved ones, gave them opportunities to perform their grief publicly and privately, allowed them to create healing bonds of friendship, and soothed them with sonic vibrations and the rhythmically regular bodily movements required in order to perform many French neoclassical compositions. In revealing the importance music making held for interwar French musicians, this book refigures French modernist music as a therapeutic medium for creators, performers, and audiences, while also underlining the importance of addressing trauma, mourning, and people's emotional lives in music scholarship"--
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Title | The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | American poetry |
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Conversations with Cézanne
Title | Conversations with Cézanne PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cézanne |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520225176 |
This book gathers the commentary of people who knew the painter Paul Cezanne, especially in his later years. Now seen as one of the most influential of modern painters, in his 40s he returned to his village of Aix-en-Provence where, he worked in near obscurity and with great dedication until his death in 1906.
French Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Title | French Opera at the Fin de Siècle PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Huebner |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 2006-02-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780199719921 |
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.