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Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature

Aesthetic technologies of modernity, subjectivity, and nature

Richard D. Leppert

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Addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the nascent twentieth century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present.

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OL Work ID
OL20018322W

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Motion picturesPhilosophy and aestheticsModernism (Music)Social aspectsNature in motion picturesNature in musicOperaMusicDays of heaven (Motion picture)Sound recordingsFitzcarraldo (Motion picture)HistoryPuccini, giacomo, 1858-1924Modernism (music)Motion pictures, social aspectsProgram musicFanciulla del West (Puccini, Giacomo)

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