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Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism

Title
Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism / Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman.
Author
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
Publication
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.
Description
xx, 315 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"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.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English. 2017
Alternative Title
Works. 2017
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the German.
Contents
Prologue : again Herder -- Folk song at the beginnings of national history : Alte Volkslieder (1774) -- The folk-song project at the confluence of music and nationalism : Volkslieder (1778/1779) and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807) -- Singing the sacred body : Lieder der Liebe -- The nation and its fragments : extract from Correspondence about Ossian and the songs of ancient peoples -- Songs of the enlightenment bard : Homer and Ossian -- Redemption through sacred song : letter 46, theological writings -- The shores of modernity : Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten -- The epic as nation : Herder's Cid -- Music transcendent and sublime : On music (1800) -- Epilogue : Herder's journey.
Call Number
JME 17-222
ISBN
  • 9780520234949
  • 0520234944
  • 9780520234956
  • 0520234952
LCCN
2016026829
OCLC
952587700
Author
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803, author.
Title
Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism / Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.
Language
Translated from the German.
Added Author
Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- editor, translator, writer of added commentary.
Container of (expression): Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. Alte Volkslieder. English.
Other Form:
Online version: Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. Song loves the masses. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520966444 (DLC) 2016032212
Research Call Number
JME 17-222
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