Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared cosmopolitan affinities, including Arne Garborg, Hamlin Garland, Madison Grant, and Lathrop Stoddard.  Each overlapping case study surveys the diachronic transmission of cosmopolitanism as well as the synchronic practices that animated these modernist ideas.  Instead of taking a strictly chronological approach to organization, each chapter offers an examination of the different layers of identity that expanded and contracted in relation to a mutual interest in Nordic culture.  From the burgeoning "universal" ambitions around 1900 to the darker racialized discourse of the 1920s, this study offers a critical analysis of both the idea and practice of cosmopolitanism in order to expose its common foundations as well as the limits of its application.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Traversing Time, Place, and Space.- 2. Local Debates, International Partnerships: Garborg, Benzon, and Grieg's Idea of Cosmopolitanism.- 3. From Songs to Psalms: Grieg's Cosmopolitan Aesthetic.- 4. Cosmopolitan Practices: Grieg, Grainger, and the Search for a Musical Analogue.- 5. Cosmopolitan Ideas: Grieg, MacDowell, and a Tale of Weary Men.- 6. In Search of Hybridity: MacDowell, Grainger, and the End of Anachronisms.- 7. The Grainger Paradox: Manufacturing Hybridity, Circulating Exclusivity.- 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Ryan R. Weber is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Misericordia University, USA, where he also serves on the faculty of the Medical and Health Humanities Program.  His research has appeared in the journals Ars Lyrica, Musicology Australia, Journal of Musicological Research, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and others.

Summary

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared cosmopolitan affinities, including Arne Garborg, Hamlin Garland, Madison Grant, and Lathrop Stoddard.  Each overlapping case study surveys the diachronic transmission of cosmopolitanism as well as the synchronic practices that animated these modernist ideas.  Instead of taking a strictly chronological approach to organization, each chapter offers an examination of the different layers of identity that expanded and contracted in relation to a mutual interest in Nordic culture.  From the burgeoning “universal” ambitions around 1900 to the darker racialized discourse of the 1920s, this study offers a critical analysis of both the idea and practice of cosmopolitanism in order to expose its common foundations as well as the limits of its application.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan R Weber, Ryan R. Weber
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783030018597
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3001859-7
• No. of pages: 305
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 24 mm x 218 mm
• Weight: 566 g
• Illustrations: XV, 305 p. 19 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature; Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000