Song Loves the Masses

Song Loves the Masses

by Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/01/2017

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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.

ISBN:
9780520966444
9780520966444
Category:
Social & political philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-01-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of California Press

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