Ebook > Human Sciences > Music > George Bernard Shaw: Perfect Wagnerite (PDF)

George Bernard Shaw
Perfect Wagnerite
A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring

Support

Cover of George Bernard Shaw: Perfect Wagnerite (PDF)

Though remembered primarily as a playwright and novelist, Irish writer George Bernard Shaw was an insatiably curious intellect whose interests encompassed a broad array of topics. This exegesis on Wagner’s Ring cycle relates the opera series to ideas like capitalism and mythological archetypes.

€4.16

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 120 ● ISBN 9781776519071 ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6680592 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

George Bernard Shaw

30,357 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Julia Ehmann: Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre

Julia Ehmann: Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band’s varied reception in online and offline media. Radiohead’s work comb …

Cover of Liam Maloney & John Schofield: Music and Heritage

Liam Maloney & John Schofield: Music and Heritage

Music and Heritage provides new thinking about the diverse ways people engage with heritage. By exploring the relationships that exist between music, place and identity, the book illustrates how peop …

Cover of Frank M. (New York University, USA) Lachmann: Self-Restorative Power of Music

Frank M. (New York University, USA) Lachmann: Self-Restorative Power of Music

This book explores how we can understand the place of music from a self psychological perspective, by investigating three journeys: the one we take when listening to music, the literal journey of the …

Cover of Steve Redhead: End-Of-The-Century Party

Steve Redhead: End-Of-The-Century Party

Madchester may have been born at the Haienda in the summer of 1988, but the city had been in creative ferment for almost a decade prior to the rise of acid house. The end-of-the-century party is the …

Cover of Peter Bennett: Sacred Repertories in Paris under Louis XIII

Peter Bennett: Sacred Repertories in Paris under Louis XIII

The study of sacred music under Louis XIII (r.1610-43) has advanced little in the past hundred years. Despite some important recent contributions by the late Denise Launay and others, much of our …

Cover of Sarah Baker & Zelmarie Cantillon: The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

Sarah Baker & Zelmarie Cantillon: The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approac …

Cover of Dr. Julia Mitchell: Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945-65

Dr. Julia Mitchell: Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945-65

The English folk revival cannot be understood when divorced from the history of post-war England, yet the existing scholarship fails to fully engage with its role in the social and political fabric …

Cover of Prof Sean Alexander Gurd: The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

Prof Sean Alexander Gurd: The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion …

Cover of Karl Kroeger: Three New York Composers

Karl Kroeger: Three New York Composers

Part of the Music of the NEW AMERICAN NATION Sacred Music From 1780 To 1820 series. The collected works of Lewis Edson (1748-1820) Lewis Edson Jr. (1771-1845) and Nathaniel Billings (fl. 1794-1795 …

Cover of Erin T. Allen & Reebee (Univeristy of Massachusetts, Boston) Garofalo: HONK!

Erin T. Allen & Reebee (Univeristy of Massachusetts, Boston) Garofalo: HONK!

HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly brass and percussion ensembles—and examines how this exciting phe …