Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism [electronic resource] : Culture as Migration / by Robert Fraser.

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Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism [electronic resource] : Culture as Migration / by Robert Fraser.

9783319684802
3319684809
9783319684796 (print)
3319684795
9783319684819 (print)
3319684817
9783319886107 (print)
331988610X

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XI, 211 pages :) : online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-68480-2 doi

809

This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without exception - is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the twenty-first centuries AD, on locations as remote as Alexandria and Australia, on writers as different as Virgil and V.S.Naipaul, Arnold and Achebe, and on musicians as diverse as Bach and Bartok, Purcell and Steve Reich. Across thirteen chapters, the study explores the interpenetration of all forms of human expression, the fallacy of 'national' traditions and limiting conceptions of regional character. The result is an exploration of artistic and intellectual endeavour that is particularly welcome in the current political climate, encouraging us to view history in ways informed by our contemporary demographic and cultural concerns. Taken either as a series of interrelated case studies, or else as an evolving and sequential argument, this book is vital reading for scholars of music, literature, and cultural and social history.

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