Bridging Divides: Verdi's Requiem in Post-Unification Italy

2015 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-342
Author(s):  
Francesca Vella
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Alessandro Manzoni ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Late Nineteenth

ABSTRACTThis article addresses the early Italian reception of Verdi's Messa da Requiem (1874), premièred in Milan on the first anniversary of the death of the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Previous literature has focused on issues of musical genre and the work's political implications (particularly its connections with Manzoni and with late nineteenth-century Italian revivals of ‘old’ sacred music). The article examines, instead, the curiously pluralistic concerns of contemporary critics, as well as certain aspects of Verdi's vocal writing, with the aim of destabilizing traditional dichotomies such as old/new, sacred/operatic, vocal/instrumental and progress/crisis. It argues for more broad-ranging political resonances of Verdi's work, suggesting that the negotiation of a variety of boundaries both in Verdi's music and in its contemporary discussion made the Requiem dovetail with wider cultural attempts to define Italian identity.

: The Critique of Individualism

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
Economic Man ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter focuses on the thought that ‘rational, economic man’ may be a useful figment of the economists’ imagination but is not a useful figment of the social and political theorist’s. After some remarks about the strength of individualism in British political thought, the chapter discusses the post-1945 debate over the virtues of ‘methodological individualism’ and its supposed political implications. The argument then begins in earnest with the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Idealist critique of the ‘narrow individualism’ that Idealists believed underlay utilitarianism and earlier forms of liberalism. The discussion also cites some British contributions to the Marxist critique of rational economic man, and ends with a very short discussion of communitarianism.

scholarly journals Um Brasil Maxixe: Representações Culturais e Identitárias em Composições desse Gênero Musical

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Débora Bender ◽  
Juracy Assmann Saraiva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Convergence Theory ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Brazilian Identity ◽  
Brazilian Culture ◽  
Afro Brazilian

Resumo: A teoria da sustentação da identidade brasileira sobre o amálgama de  três raças, que surgiu na virada do século XIX para o século XX, foi uma tentativa de compreender e de explicar a cultura brasileira. Ela pressupunha a miscigenação como resultado da convivência harmônica de três raças –  a branca, a indígena e a negra  ̶  e como marca fundamental da identidade brasileira, concepção que deixou resquícios no imaginário nacional e estrangeiro e ainda vigora na atualidade. O maxixe, que se efetiva pela ruptura e pela articulação de ritmos europeus e afro-brasileiros, pode ser considerado reflexo desse processo. O presente artigo investiga representações culturais e identitárias, expressas em letras de quatros maxixes que alcançaram sucesso no Brasil, no final do século XIX, para discutir sua correlação com a teoria da convergência das três raças. Palavras-chave: Maxixe. Representação. Cultura. Identidade. Miscigenação.  A BRAZIL MAXIXE: CULTURAL AND IDENTITY REPRESENTATIONS IN COMPOSITIONS OF THAT MUSICAL GENRE  Abstract: The theory of the three races, which emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century to the twentieth century, was an attempt to understand and explain the Brazilian culture. It presupposed the miscegenation as a reflection of the harmonious coexistence of three ethnicities  ̶  the white, the indigenous and the black  ̶  and as a fundamental mark of the Brazilian identity, conception that left traces in the national and foreign imagery until the present days. The maxixe, since it is configured in the disruption and in the articulation of European and Afro-Brazilian rhythms, can be considerer as a reflex of this process. This article investigates the Brazilian cultural and indentity representations present in the lyric of four maxixes, which were successful in Brazil, in the late nineteenth century, to discuss its correlation with the convergence theory of the three races.  Palavras-chave: Maxixe. Representation. Culture. Identity. Miscegenation.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945): profile of a Snowdonian botanist

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Dewi Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Plant Physiology ◽  
Marine Algae ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Major Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth

John Lloyd Williams was an authority on the arctic-alpine flora of Snowdonia during the late nineteenth century when plant collecting was at its height, but unlike other botanists and plant collectors he did not fully pursue the fashionable trend of forming a complete herbarium. His diligent plant-hunting in a comparatively little explored part of Snowdonia led to his discovering a new site for the rare Killarney fern (Trichomanes speciosum), a feat which was considered a major achievement at the time. For most part of the nineteenth century plant distribution, classification and forming herbaria, had been paramount in the learning of botany in Britain resulting in little attention being made to other aspects of the subject. However, towards the end of the century many botanists turned their attention to studying plant physiology, a subject which had advanced significantly in German laboratories. Rivalry between botanists working on similar projects became inevitable in the race to be first in print as Lloyd Williams soon realized when undertaking his major study on the cytology of marine algae.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

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