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Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression
Author(s): Nicole Grimes (Editor), Siobhán Donovan (Editor), Wolfgang Marx (Editor)
- Publisher: University of Rochester Press
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 1580464327
- ISBN-13: 9781580464321
Book Description
Rethinking Hanslick serves as an invaluable companion to Hanslick’s prodigious scholarship and criticism, deepening our understanding of the major themes and ideas of one of the most influential music critics of the nineteenth century.
Contributors: David Brodbeck, James Deaville, Chantal Frankenbach, Lauren Freede, Marion Gerards, Dana Gooley, Nicole Grimes, David Kasunic, David Larkin, Fred Everett Maus, Timothy R. McKinney, Nina Noeske, Anthony Pryer, Felix Wörner
Nicole Grimes is Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of California, Irvine.
Siobhán Donovan is a college lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures, UCD.
Wolfgang Marx is a senior lecturer at the School of Music, UCD.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Make[s] a convincing case for further attention to this important figure in musical history. JOURNAL OF MUSIOCLOGICAL RESEARCH
A significant reassessment. . . . A much-needed collection of studies that reevaluate Hanslick’s overall output in a broader cultural context, in particular that of Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century. . . . Opens new doors to future studies on Hanslick’s stance as an aesthetician and critic in the appropriate sociocultural context. The book also succeeds in presenting numerous complex issues surrounding the general [written] output of Hanslick in a coherent manner. MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES
A virtual kaleidoscope of scholarship. . . . Rich and thoroughly researched discussions . . . will find many grateful readers in countless and diverse disciplines. MUSIC REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY [Ann Lee]
Manages to traverse a good deal of the work of this long-lived and prolific writer on music, and to highlight-productively-the contrasts and even the ambiguities, with respect to matters of identity, national and otherwise, that the full range of his writings reveals. MUSICAL TIMES
The first English-language study of its kind in 60 years. . . . Cogent and . . . exemplary essays in aesthetic history. CHOICE
The contributors are determined to tease out the nuances and contradictions of Hanslick’s thought. . . . David Kasunic sensitively explores the ambiguities of Hanslick’s attitutdes to his own Jewish ancestry. . . . David Brodbeck continues his valuable series of investigations into Hanslick’s reception of cultural Others in the contemporary sphere of “German” music. MUSIC & LETTERS
Rethinking Hanslick paints a diverse but coherent picture of Hanslick’s critical career and its multifaceted cultural significance. Adding to recent work expanding the musicological understanding of Hanslick’s legacy, this volume will be of major interest to musicologists, music theorists, and aestheticians engaged in the criticism and analysis of nineteenth-century music, as well as to those scholars more specifically concerned with the impact of Hanslick’s aesthetics on twentieth-century formalist perspectives on music. –Holly Watkins, Eastman School of Music
About the Author
WOLFGANG MARX is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at University College Dublin. He is co-editor with Louise Duchesneau, of
György Ligeti. Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Boydell Press, 2011) and with Nicole Grimes and Siobhán Donovan (eds), Rethinking Hanslick. Music, Formalism, and Expression(URP, 2013).
