Politics of Appropriation

Auteur: Geary, Jason (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Michigan)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
This book explores the intersection of music and Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany.It shows how productions such as that of the Prussian court of Sophocles' Antigone with music by Felix Mendelssohn reflect an effort by the rulers who commissioned them to appropriate the legacy of Greece for the creation of a German cultural and national identity.

En stock

This book explores the intersection of music and Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany.It shows how productions such as that of the Prussian court of Sophocles' Antigone with music by Felix Mendelssohn reflect an effort by the rulers who commissioned them to appropriate the legacy of Greece for the creation of a German cultural and national identity.
ISBN / EAN 9780199736119
Auteur Geary, Jason (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Michigan)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc