The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalismâ s place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire and authenticity.
The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalismâ s place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire and authenticity.
Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author/editor of nine books, including Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010), After Mahler (2013), and Aesthetics of Music (2014).
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1.Introduction: Getting Sentimental Part 1: Spaces 2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall. Part 2: Genres 4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel. 5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second Violin Concertos of Bartók and Szymanowski. Part 3: Psychologies 6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes's Schumann and Schumann's 'Chopin'. 7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: 'screen memories', a Schubert lied and the voice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day. Part 4: Appropriations 8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin's Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim's 'Insensatez', and sentimental ecology. 10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow's 'Could it be Magic?' Part 5: Sympathies 11. Make it 'Easy'? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb. Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer 13. Górecki's Tears/ Our Tears.
1.Introduction: Getting Sentimental Part 1: Spaces 2. Sentimental virtues in the Victorian Salon: Joseph Joachim on the lawn and in the lounge. 3. Feeling and Design Magnified: the place and status of sentimental music in the nineteenth-century concert hall. Part 2: Genres 4. Sentimental Waltzes: tender steps from Goethe to Ravel. 5. Longing to Belong: Nationalism, sentimentalism, and the Second Violin Concertos of Bartók and Szymanowski. Part 3: Psychologies 6. Sentimentalism and Masochism: Barthes's Schumann and Schumann's 'Chopin'. 7. Two Sentimental English Gentlemen: 'screen memories', a Schubert lied and the voice of Gracie Fields in Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day. Part 4: Appropriations 8. Ellington, Liszt, and Chopin's Death Bed. 9. Chopin on the Beach: Bossa nova, Tom Jobim's 'Insensatez', and sentimental ecology. 10. Chopin and the Power Ballad: Barry Manilow's 'Could it be Magic?' Part 5: Sympathies 11. Make it 'Easy'? Sentimental subject positions in songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 12. Homes and Roads: the song writing of Carole King and Jimmy Webb. Coda: Compassion, Mediation and the Consumer 13. Górecki's Tears/ Our Tears.
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