Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian NovelOhio University Press, 2002 - 226 páginas Music was at once one of the most idealized and one of the most contested art forms of the Victorian period. Yet this vitally important nineteenth-century cultural form has been studied by literary critics mainly as a system of thematic motifs. Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs positions music as a charged site of cultural struggle, promoted concurrently as a transcendent corrective to social ills and as a subversive cause of those ills. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre examines Victorian constructions of music to advance patriotism, Christianity, culture, and domestic harmony, and suggests that often these goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts or "immoral sensuality" in the "spectacle" of live music-making. Professor Clapp-Itnyre turns her focus to the novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, who present complex engagements with those musical genres most privileged by Victorian society: folk songs, religious hymns, and concert music. Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs recovers the pervasive ambiguities of the Victorian musical period, ambiguities typically overlooked by both literary scholars and musicologists. To the literary critic and cultural historian, Professor Clapp-Itnyre demonstrates the necessity of further exploring the complete aesthetic climate behind some of the Victorian period's most powerful literary works. And to the feminist scholar and the musicologist, Clapp-Itnyre reveals the complexities of music as both an oppressive cultural force and an expressive, creative outlet for women. |
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... scenes of music - making . But perhaps the most important aspect of this study is its feminist impli- cations of the Victorian musical scene . As I began this project , I continued to be curious as to why musical encounters so often ...
... scene by their self - conscious awareness of their artistic performances . Stephen criticizes Philip's " indifferent voice " in Philip's absence , while even Lucy speaks of Stephen's voice not being low enough for the part and teases ...
... scene is paradigmatic of the trends found in all of the previous scenes . The Tempest1 ” —based on Shake- speare's romance — is an important component since it is another famous pastoral in which the upper - class invaders are ...
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One Angelic Airs Subversive Songs | 1 |
Two CountryCity Strife and Communities of Singing Women | 45 |
Three A Subversive Spirituality | 77 |
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