Moral Fire : Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siecle.
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisi...
| Основен автор: | Horowitz, Joseph. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=439371 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Moral Fire : Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siecle. |
| Резюме: |
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities--Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520951860 0520951867 0520267443 9780520267442 |