Song loves the masses : Herder on music and nationalism / Johann Gottfried Herder and Philip V. Bohlman.

By:

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Bohlman, Philip V, 1952- [editor,, translator,, writer of added commentary.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xx, 315 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520966444
0520966449

Uniform titles:

Works. Selections. English. 2017

Related works:

Container of (expression): Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. Alte Volkslieder. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Song loves the masses.DDC classification:

781.5/99 23

LOC classification:

ML3545 .H47 2017

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Contents:

Prologue : again Herder -- Folk song at the beginnings of national history : Alte Volkslieder (1774) -- The folk-song project at the confluence of music and nationalism : Volkslieder (1778/1779) and Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1807) -- Singing the sacred body : Lieder der Liebe -- The nation and its fragments : extract from Correspondence about Ossian and the songs of ancient peoples -- Songs of the enlightenment bard : Homer and Ossian -- Redemption through sacred song : letter 46, theological writings -- The shores of modernity : Wirkung der Dichtkunst auf die Sitten neuerer Zeiten -- The epic as nation : Herder's Cid -- Music transcendent and sublime : On music (1800) -- Epilogue : Herder's journey.

Summary: "Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication. Framed by analytical chapters and extensive introductions to each translation, this book interprets Herder's musings on music to think through several major questions: What meaning did religion and religious thought have for Herder? Why do the nation and nationalism acquire musical dimensions at the confluence of aesthetics and religious thought? How did his aesthetic and musical thought come to transform the way Herder understood music and nationalism and their presence in global history? Bohlman uses the mode of translation to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures, providing today's readers with an elegantly narrated and exceptionally curated collection of essays on music by two major intellectuals"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he gathered the many strands of his musical thought into a single publication. Framed by analytical chapters and extensive introductions to each translation, this book interprets Herder's musings on music to think through several major questions: What meaning did religion and religious thought have for Herder? Why do the nation and nationalism acquire musical dimensions at the confluence of aesthetics and religious thought? How did his aesthetic and musical thought come to transform the way Herder understood music and nationalism and their presence in global history? Bohlman uses the mode of translation to explore Herder's own interpretive practice as a translator of languages and cultures, providing today's readers with an elegantly narrated and exceptionally curated collection of essays on music by two major intellectuals"--Provided by publisher.