Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Title | Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Fisher, Alexander J. |
Number of Pages | 359 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | New York |
Abstract | Explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound--including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular song, as well as cultivated polyphony--not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries. |
URL | https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764648.001.0001/acprof-9780199764648 |
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