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Author : Michael Snodin
Release : 2009
Genre : Art, Baroque
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Book Synopsis Baroque, 1620-1800 by : Michael Snodin
Download or read book Baroque, 1620-1800 written by Michael Snodin. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gijs Versteegen
Release : 2020-11-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 804/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century by : Gijs Versteegen
Download or read book Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century written by Gijs Versteegen. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.
Author : Peter Gillgren
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 689/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome by : Peter Gillgren
Download or read book Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome written by Peter Gillgren. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of meaning inside and outside the arts have made it possible to talk today about a performative turn in the humanities. In Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome, scholars from different fields of research explore performative aspects of Baroque culture. With examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life, from theatre, music and ritual as well as from architecture, painting and sculpture the contributors demonstrate how broadly the concept of performativity has been adopted within different disciplines.
Author : Rudolf Rasch
Release : 2018
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music and Power in the Baroque Era by : Rudolf Rasch
Download or read book Music and Power in the Baroque Era written by Rudolf Rasch. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music always functions in a specific environment and, viewed from the other side, environments use music to confirm and strengthen their identities. Institutions of power have in all times employed music to present themselves to the outside world, alongside other means such as architecture, fine arts, design and fashion. The present volume brings together a number of studies that all deal, in one way or another, with the question of how power was implemented in music in what is called the Baroque Era, roughly the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth. The essays can be grouped under four main headings: court opera, ceremonial music, musicians and miscellaneous studies. Several essays discuss court opera, one of the most conspicuous musical forms with which a monarch could display his power. Music could also accompany festivities and ceremonies of all sorts, of very different kinds of institutions, courtly, civil or ecclesiastical. Not only sovereign rulers could employ music to confirm their power, also lower-ranking powers such as nobility often invested in music in order to gain prestige. Various studies highlight this aspect of music andpower. Finally, there are studies that deal with more general questions, such as the representation of power in Baroque opera, dedications of musical works to royals and other patrons, and the social status of musicians as they are positioned between patrons and public.
Author : Riitta Jallinoja
Release : 2017-01-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 739/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Families, Status and Dynasties by : Riitta Jallinoja
Download or read book Families, Status and Dynasties written by Riitta Jallinoja. This book was released on 2017-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status equivalence determines choice of spouse. Exceptionally extensive in its coverage, the book ranges from the seventeenth century to the present day, across a large range of European countries and part of the United States, and across several class groups, including royalty, nobility and entrepreneurial dynasties, as well as families of professionals, artists and those in lower ranks. The book also discusses the viability of the central sociological concepts of class and status. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of family sociology, history, social equality and inequality and class and elitism research.
