In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, contributors consider the fascinating and unexpected ways that nineteenth-century writing on music contributed to debates about evolution, the scientific method, psychology, exoticism, gender, and the divide between high and low culture.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Paul Watt, Sarah Collins, and Michael Allis
Part I: TEXTS AND PRACTICES
1. History, Historicism, Historiography
Kevin Karnes
2. Criticism
Noel Verzosa
3. Figures and Forms of Analysis Practice
Remy Campos
4. Biography and Life-Writing
Christopher Wiley
5. Travel Writing
Michael Allis
6. Philosophy and Aesthetics
Lawrence Kramer
7. Fiction and Poetry
Michael Halliwell
8. Ephemera
Catherine Massip
Part II: NETWORKS AND INSTITUTIONS
9. Newspapers, Little Magazines, and Anthologies
Paul Watt
10. Learned Societies, Institutions, Associations, and Clubs
Jeremy Dibble
11. Churches and Devotional Practice
Martin Clarke
12. Libraries and Archives
Matthias Lundberg
13. Universities and Conservatories
Peter Tregear
14. The Concert Series
Simon McVeigh
Part III: DISCOURSES
15. Musical Canons
William Weber
16. Landscape and Ecology
Daniel M. Grimley
17. The National and the Universal
Sarah Collins
18. Science and Religion
Bennett Zon
19. Popular Song and Working-Class Culture
Gillian M. Rodger
20. Emotions
Michael Spitzer
21. Time and Temporality
Benedict Taylor
22. Ethics
Tomas McAuley
23. Music Scholarship and Disciplinarity
Michel Duchesneau