Song loves the masses Herder on music and nationalism / Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman.

Author/creator Herder, Johann Gottfried
Other author Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Uniform titleWorks. Selections. English. 2017
Contents Prologue : again Herder -- Folk song at the beginnings of national history : essay on Alte Volkslieder (1774) -- The folk-song project at the confluence of music and nationalism : essay on Volkslieder (1778/1779) and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807) -- Singing the sacred body : essay on Lieder der Liebe (1778) -- The nation and its fragments : essay on "Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker" (1773) -- Songs of the enlightenment bard : essay on Homer and Ossian (1794) -- Redemption through sacred song : essay on letter 46, Theologische Schriften (1780/81) -- The shores of modernity : essay on Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten (1777) -- The epic as nation : essay on Herder's Cid -- Music transcendent and sublime : On music (1800) -- Epilogue : Herder's journey.
Abstract "Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication. Framed by analytical chapters and extensive introductions to each translation, this book interprets Herder's musings on music to think through several major questions: What meaning did religion and religious thought have for Herder? Why do the nation and nationalism acquire musical dimensions at the confluence of aesthetics and religious thought? How did his aesthetic and musical thought come to transform the way Herder understood music and nationalism and their presence in global history? Bohlman uses the mode of translation to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures, providing today's readers with an elegantly narrated and exceptionally curated collection of essays on music by two major intellectuals"--Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803, author. Song loves the masses Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520234949
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016032212
ISBN9780520966444 (ebook)

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