Fisher, Alexander J. - Music, Piety, and Propaganda

Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music and sound shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for Source Locations
I. Sound, Space, and Confession in Counter-Reformation Bavaria
II. Sound and the Spaces of Worship
III. Sound and Spaces of Devotion
IV. Sound and Confession in the Civic Sphere
V. Music, Sound, and Processional Culture
VI. Sound, Pilgrimage, and the Spiritual Geography of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Bibliography
Index

Series	New Cultural History of Music