| Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire Contributor(s): Mitchell, Rebecca (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300208898 ISBN-13: 9780300208894 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $104.94 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Music | History & Criticism - General - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 780.947 |
| LCCN: 2015941641 |
| Series: Eurasia Past and Present |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.40 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia's "Silver Age," author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how "Nietzsche's orphans" strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution. |