Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology: Belonging in the Age of Originality

by Matthew Gelbart

European Romanticism gave rise to a powerful discourse equating genres to constrictive rules and forms that great art should transcend; and yet without the categories and intertextual references we hold in our minds, "music" would be meaningless noise. Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology teases out that paradox, charting the workings and legacies of Romantic artistic values such as originality and anti-commercialism in relation to musical genre. Genre's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190646926
• ISBN13: 9780190646929
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"