Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Stephen Downes

Book Overview

In a wide-ranging study of sentimentalism's significance for styles, practices and meanings of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a series of interpretations scrutinizes musical expressions of sympathetic responses to suffering and the longing to belong. The book challenges hierarchies of artistic value and the associated denigration of sentimental feeling in gendered discourses. Fresh insights are thereby developed into sentimentalism's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032007427
• ISBN13: 9781032007427
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"