Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Cent... - 9781032007427

Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesAuthor(s): Stephen Downes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032007427, 978-1032007427\nSynopsis\nIn a wide-ranging study of sentimentalisms 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 sentimentalisms place in musical constructions of emotion, taste, genre, gender, desire, and authenticity.\n\nThe contexts encompass diverse musical communities, performing spaces, and listening practices, including the nineteenth-century salon and concert hall, the cinema, the intimate stage persona of the singer-songwrite.