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The Work of Music: Labor and Creativity in Germany's Long Nineteenth Century

The Work of Music: Labor and Creativity in Germany's Long Nineteenth Century

Applegate, Celia

Hardcover

Series: George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

German HistoryMusic ReferenceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0299353303
ISBN13: 9780299353308
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of music and musicians, the various jobs they performed, the work music did in society, the observations and commentaries of contemporaries on the shape and function of musical life, and the work of organizing music making, both amateur and professional. At a time when ideas of absolute music and music-as-leisure were both on the rise, writing about music tended to obscure these practical matters. Here, Applegate reflects on how an intensely musical society organized and understood the ubiquitous activity that underpinned it.

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