Making Light

Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism

Raymond Knapp (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6935-6 (ISBN)

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In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. Knapp identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such as minstrelsy and operetta a strain of high camp-a mode of engagement that relishes both the superficial and serious aspects of an aesthetic experience-that runs antithetical to German Idealism's musical paradigms. By considering the disservice done to Haydn by German Idealism alongside the emergence of musical camp in American popular music, Knapp outlines a common ground: a humanistically based aesthetic of shared pleasure that points to ways in which camp receptive modes might rejuvenate the original appeal of Haydn's music that has mostly eluded audiences. In so doing, Knapp remaps the historiographical modes and systems of critical evaluation that dominate musicology while troubling the divide between serious and popular music.

Raymond Knapp is Professor of Musicology and Academic Associate Dean at the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles, the author of The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity, and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical.

List of Musical Examples ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Companion Website xxi
Part I. Approached the Absolute
1. Idealizing Music 3
Part II. Haydn's Difference
2. Entertaining Possibilities in Haydn's Symphonies 53
3. Haydn, the String Quartet, and the (D)evolution of the Chamber Ideal 101
Part III. New World Dualities
4. Popular Music contra German Idealism: Anglo-American Rebellions from Minstrelsy to Camp 137
5. "Popular Music" qua German Idealism: Authenticity and Its Outliers 221
6. Musical Virtues and Vices in the Latter-Day New World 253
Appendix A. More Extended Musical Examples 279
Appendix B. Listing of Video Examples from Films 293
Notes 295
Bibliography 343
Index 367

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	22 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-8223-6935-4 / 0822369354
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6935-6 / 9780822369356
Zustand	Neuware