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François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

By: David Francis Urrows

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François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

By: David Francis Urrows

This book reveals the story of François Ravary, Jesuit missionary, musician, and organ builder. The mastermind behind the construction of the bamboo organs of nineteenth-century Shanghai, Ravary’s unpublished letters from China present a vivid picture of the excitement and crises surrounding the Roman Catholic mission in the often-violent integration of global space of this time. Focusing on an individual life, this study adds needed perspective to histories of the treaty-port era. By shifting the inquiry towards a nuanced, empirical, and refocused evaluation of the landscape, Ravary is revealed as a humanist in the Christian tradition, curious about Chinese society and culture, as well as the force behind China’s first brass band, first school orchestra, and other landmarks of Sino-European musical convergence. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century China studies, cultural histories, and the diffusion of Western art practices.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527575136

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François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

By: David Francis Urrows

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Audiobooks as Artifacts

Listening for Classification and Appreciation

By: David Seinberg

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Audiobooks as Artifacts

Listening for Classification and Appreciation

By: David Seinberg

Their ever-evolving popularity notwithstanding, audiobooks remain a rather undertheorized phenomenon. The prevailing handful of existing studies seem to have adopted an inherently historicist approach, which fails to identify and scrutinize their aesthetic importance. Thus, rather than regarding them as mere recorded ‘versions’ of existing literary works, this book explores them as the unique products of a hitherto undefined artistic genre. As performance-based aural artefacts, the very act of listening to them is rendered an aesthetic experience in its own right. By effectively embracing an interdisciplinary approach and introducing a set of aesthetic questions and philosophical conundrums (ignited by a paradigmatic application of the New Institutional Theory of Art), this study establishes a new aesthetic category—which, in turn, not only classifies audiobooks as artworks to all intents and purposes, but also generates the criteria and parameters for evaluating their merit. Since the proof of the proverbial pudding is purportedly in the eating, in surveying a series of concrete case studies—each highlighting different degrees of complexities—this study mainly examines first-person narratives as the most natural medium for the aesthetics of the audiobook. As such, the investigation herein provides one with comparative close listenings, appropriately analyzing and debating their aesthetic properties. Finally, in exploring what this study identifies as one’s informed intuition and its role in the craft of casting audiobooks, this study also proposes a new understating of how aesthetic appreciation works in action.

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Common Ground Research Networks

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1963049373

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume II

By: Bryan N. S. Gooch,David Thatcher

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume II

By: Bryan N. S. Gooch,David Thatcher

The five volumes provide a comprehensive and detailed documentation of all music -- published and unpublished, from Shakespeare's day to our own -- in any way related to Shakespeare's life and work.

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Clarendon Press

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0198129424

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

Indices

By: Bryan N. S. Gooch,David Thatcher

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A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

Indices

By: Bryan N. S. Gooch,David Thatcher

V.1. The catalogue of music, All's well that ends well-Love's labour's lost -- v.2. The catalogue of music, Macbeth-The taming of the shrew -- v.3. The catalo gue of music, The tempest-The two nobel kinsmen, the sonnets ... -- v.4. Indices --v.5. Bibliography.

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Clarendon Press

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0198129440

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Book's by David Francis Urrows

François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

Audiobooks as Artifacts

Audiobooks as Artifacts

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume II

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume II

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

A Shakespeare Music Catalogue: Volume IV

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