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Beethoven in America / Michael Broyles.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B4 B869 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broyles, Michael, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
- Music--Social aspects--United States.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Composers--Austria--Biography.
- Composers.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Part 1. Arrival and sacralization. Arrival in America ; Defining Beethoven ; Deification and spiritualization
- Part 2. Science, scholars, and critics. Beethoven, modernism, and science ; "The warm tropical summer of sketch research" : Beethoven and the Cold War ; Reactions to modernism : musical meaning and the classical canon
- Part 3. Beethoven and the dramatic arts. Beethoven on the silver screen ; Beethoven's music in film ; Beethoven in the theater
- Part 4. Beyond classicism : Beethoven in American society and culture. "Beethoven was Black" : why does It matter? ; Beethoven in popular music ; Beethoven everywhere.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253357045
- 0253357047
- OCLC:
- 696100042
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