Dreams of Love
Playing the Romantic Pianist
Seiten
2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989267-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989267-9 (ISBN)
Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the concert pianist as a "Romantic" and seductive-even erotic-figure in the popular imagination, focusing on the role of technology in perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries through the touch, sights, and sounds of the pianist's playing.
The Romantic pianist--the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music--has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literature, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the "romantic" pianist as a cultural icon, focusing on the role of technology in producing and perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries. Sound recording and cinema have shaped the pianist's music and image since the early twentieth century, but these contemporary media technologies build upon practices established during the early nineteenth century: the influence of the piano keyboard on early telegraphs and typewriters, the invention of the solo recital alongside developments in photography, and the ways that piano design and the placement of the instrument on stage structure our viewing-listening perspectives. The concept of technology can be broadened to include the performance of gender and sexuality as further ways of making the pianist into an attractive cultural figure. The book's three sections deal with the touch, sights, and sounds of the Romantic pianist's playing as mediated through various forms of technology. Analyzing these persistent Liebesträume and exploring how they function can reveal their meaning for performers, audiences, and music lovers of the past and present too.
The Romantic pianist--the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music--has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literature, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the "romantic" pianist as a cultural icon, focusing on the role of technology in producing and perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries. Sound recording and cinema have shaped the pianist's music and image since the early twentieth century, but these contemporary media technologies build upon practices established during the early nineteenth century: the influence of the piano keyboard on early telegraphs and typewriters, the invention of the solo recital alongside developments in photography, and the ways that piano design and the placement of the instrument on stage structure our viewing-listening perspectives. The concept of technology can be broadened to include the performance of gender and sexuality as further ways of making the pianist into an attractive cultural figure. The book's three sections deal with the touch, sights, and sounds of the Romantic pianist's playing as mediated through various forms of technology. Analyzing these persistent Liebesträume and exploring how they function can reveal their meaning for performers, audiences, and music lovers of the past and present too.
Ivan Raykoff is Associate Professor of Music in the interdisciplinary arts program at Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of The New School in New York.
01. Foreplay ; I. TOUCH ; 02. Touching Technologies ; 03. Pianist Envy ; 04. Prosthetic Desires ; II. SIGHT ; 05. Play It Again, Franz ; 06. Embodied Instruments ; 07. Listening Looks ; III. SOUN D ; 08. Chopin's Seductions ; 09. Piano Women, Forte Women ; 10. Virile Virtuosity ; 11. Afterglow ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2014 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 music examples and 46 photographs |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-989267-9 / 0199892679 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-989267-9 / 9780199892679 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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