Romantic Music Aesthetics

Creating a Politics of Emotion

Matthew Pritchard (University of Leeds)

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Cambridge University Press
21 November 2024

Music reviews & criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics

This book reassesses the place of politics and emotion within Romantic music aesthetics. Drawing together insights from the history of emotions, cultural history, and studies of philosophical idealism, 'affective relationality' – the channelling of emotion through music's social and cultural synergies – emerges as key to Romantic aesthetic thought. Now familiar concepts such as theatrical illusion, genius, poetic criticism, and the renewed connection of art to mythology and religion opened new spaces for audiences' feelings, as thinkers such as Rousseau, Herder, Germaine de Staël, Joseph Mainzer, Pierre Leroux and George Sand sought alternatives to the political status quo. Building on the sentimental tradition in eighteenth-century art and politics, the Romantics created ways of listening to music imbued not just with melancholic longing for transcendence but also with humour, gothic fantasy, satire, and political solidarity. The consequences have extended far beyond the classical concert hall into numerous domains of popular culture from melodrama, romances and political songwriting to musical theatre and film.

By: Matthew Pritchard (University of Leeds)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781009491648
ISBN 10: 1009491644
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 21 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He co-edited the volume Remixing Music Studies: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Cook (2020), and has published articles on music aesthetics, as well as translations of key texts, ranging across the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries and from Germany to Bengal.