TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raykoff,Ivan
TI  - Dreams of love: playing the romantic pianist 
SN  - 9780199892686
AV  - ML397 .D743 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Pianists
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Piano music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "Dreams of Love: Playing the Romantic Pianist explores the attractions of the concert pianist from an innovative interdisciplinary perspective, demonstrating how such meanings have evolved over two centuries through technology and the popular media, including literature and cinema. Author Ivan Raykoff uses romantic both as the label for a historical era and musical style, as well as the more colloquial adjective referring to love, desire, and sensual feeling. Through this two-fold interpretive approach, music history and cultural mythology are read alongside one another to reveal the interconnected processes of music's social mediation. The word playing also invites multiple readings: performance or practicing, as pastime or profession, as play-acting and other modes of representation, or reproduction like a player piano. The Romantic pianist signifies more than just music; through established rituals and familiar representations of practicing, performing, and listening, the pianist also plays within a larger system of cultural ideology linking music to aspects of gender, sexuality, personal identity and social relationships, and the politics of the body."
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