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Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism / Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman.
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- Author/Creator:
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2017
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803--Criticism and interpretation.
- Herder, Johann Gottfried.
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.
- Folk songs--History and criticism.
- Folk songs.
- Nationalism in music.
- National characteristics.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 315 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, some translated from the original German.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder to the essays on aesthetics, shaping them into the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication. Framed by analytical chapters and extensive introductions to each translation, this book interprets Herder's musings on music to consider several major questions: What did religion and religious thought mean for Herder? Why do the nation and nationalism acquire musical dimensions at the confluence of aesthetics and religious thought? Bohlman uses translation itself to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures, providing today's readers with an elegantly narrated and exceptionally curated collection of essays on music by two major intellectuals. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue : again Herder
- Folk song at the beginnings of national history : Alte Volkslieder (1774)
- The folk-song project at the confluence of music and nationalism : Volkslieder (1778/1779) and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807)
- Singing the sacred body : Lieder der Liebe
- The nation and its fragments : extract from Correspondence about Ossian and the songs of ancient peoples
- Songs of the enlightenment bard : Homer and Ossian
- Redemption through sacred song : letter 46, theological writings
- The shores of modernity : Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten
- The epic as nation : Herder's Cid
- Music transcendent and sublime : On music (1800)
- Epilogue : Herder's journey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2017).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- Contains:
- Container of: Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. Alte Volkslieder. English
- Other Format:
- Print version: Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803, author. Song loves the masses.
- ISBN:
- 9780520966444
- 0520966449
- Publisher Number:
- 40026838702
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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