Ryan Minor: 1 book
Choral Fantasies
Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Most histories of nineteenth-century music portray 'the people' merely as an audience, a passive spectator to the music performed around it. Yet, in this reappraisal of choral singing and public culture, Minor shows how a burgeoning German bourgeoisie sang of its own collective aspirations, mediated...
