Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Bennett Zon
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Publisher Description

This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the conceptual premise of modern debates in evolutionary musicology. Structured around the Great Chain of Being, chapters are organized by discipline in successively ascending order according to their object of study, from zoology and the study of animal music to theology and the music of God. Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture takes a non-Darwinian approach to the interpretation of Victorian scientific and musical interrelationships, debunking the idea that the arts had little influence on contemporary scientific ideas and, by probing the origins of musical interdisciplinarity, the volume shows how music helped ideas about evolution to evolve.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2017
November 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
622
Pages
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
SELLER
Cambridge University Press
SIZE
18.2
MB

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