{"product_id":"music-as-cultural-practice-1800-1900-9780520084438","title":"Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMusic as Cultural Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's \u003ci\u003eFaust Symphony\u003c\/i\u003e takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's \u003ci\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/i\u003e articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Kramer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960387309686,"sku":"9780520084438","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_2fe9cfe5-87e3-49a6-a5e0-64a13386ed13.jpg?v=1767797814","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/music-as-cultural-practice-1800-1900-9780520084438","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}