Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel - Hardcover

Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa

9780821414316: Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821414313 ISBN 13: 9780821414316

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2002

This volume positions music as a charged site of cultural struggle, promoted concurrently as a transcendent corrective to social ills and as a subversive cause of those ills. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre examines Victorian constructions of music to advance patriotism, Christianity, culture and domestic harmony, and suggests that often these goals were undermined by political tensions in song texts or immoral sensuality in the spectacle of live music-making.

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About the Author:

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University East in Richmond, Indiana, and has published articles in several journals and edited collections.

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