{"product_id":"the-necessity-of-music-9781487520489","title":"The Necessity of Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Music\u003c\/i\u003e, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate’s original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. \u003ci\u003eThe Necessity of Music\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Applegate] combines the interpretive tools of both historian and musicologist – methodologically, she writes as both, and the readership of this book should encompass both - and she forges an interpretive approach that draws the familiar and the unexpected together.\" -- Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago * American Historical Review, Feb 2019 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Focused on the rich contexts of music, rather than on the musical texts themselves (that is, the scores), these essays are essential for scholars interested in the cultural history of music and German national identity across the past three centuries.\" -- Tegan Niziol, University of Toronto * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements    List of Illustrations    Introduction    PART I: PLACES    Chapter 1 How German Is It?    Chapter 2 Music in Place    Chapter 3 Musical Itinerancy in a World of Nations    Chapter 4 Music at the Fairs    PART II: PEOPLE    Chapter 5 Mendelssohn on the Road    Chapter 6 The Internationalism of Nationalism in the Writings of A. B. Marx.    Chapter 7 Schumann's German Nation    Chapter 8 The Musical Worlds of Brahms' Hamburg.    PART III: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE    Chapter 9 What Difference does a Nation Make?    Chapter 10 Men with Trombones    Chapter 11 Women's Wagner    Chapter 12 The Past and Present of Hausmusik in the Third Reich    Chapter 13 To be or not to be Wagnerian in Riefenstahl's Films    Chapter 14 Saving Music\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040565264727,"sku":"9781487520489","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487520489.jpg?v=1750947131","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-necessity-of-music-9781487520489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}