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Paperback / softback. New. Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing models of subjectivity based on renewed wholeness and an aggressive attitude to physical and mental health. The arts were critical to this project, none more so than music, which occupied a similar space in Austro-German culture: autonomous, pure, sublime. In Modernism and the Cult of Mountains opera serves as a nexus, shedding light on the circulation of contesting ideas about politics, nature, technology and aesthetics. Morris investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism, showing how the liminal quality of the landscape forms the backdrop for opera's reflexive engagement with the identity and limits of its constituent media, not…
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- Title Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema
- Author Christopher Morris
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- Pages 220
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2016-11-16
- ISBN 9781138279261 / 1138279269
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.46 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.17 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.59
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