Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature

• Main Author: Weber, Ryan R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Comparative Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century 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 G...

Table 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.