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In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society.In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's Faust Symphony takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.

Music --- Music Philosophy --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Musique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- 19th century

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History as a science --- Christian spirituality --- John of Ephesus --- Asceticism --- Christian saints --- Jacobites (Syrian Christians) --- Monophysites --- Ascétisme --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Biography --- Histoire --- Biographies --- John, --- Christian hagiography --- Cult --- History of doctrines --- History and criticism. --- Biography. --- History. --- Christianity and culture --- Syriac Christian saints --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- 281.83 --- 235.3 <394> --- -Christian saints --- -Jacobites (Syrian Christians) --- -Monophysites --- -Christian heresies --- Oriental Orthodox churches --- Syrian Orthodox --- Syriac Christians --- Saints --- Canonization --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- Hagiografie--Syrië --- -Cult --- -History of doctrines --- -Congresses --- -History and criticism --- John Bishop of Ephesus --- 276 =75 JOANNES EPHESINUS --- Griekse patrologie--JOANNES EPHESINUS --- -Biography --- -Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- -Griekse patrologie--JOANNES EPHESINUS --- 281.83 Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- -281.83 Jacobitische monofysitische Kerk --- Christian heresies --- Ascétisme --- Saints chrétiens --- Syriac saints, Christian --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Christian saints - Cult - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Christian saints - Middle East - Biography - History and criticism. --- Jacobites (Syrian Christians) - Biography. --- Asceticism - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500. --- Monophysites - Middle East - History.

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Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families to continue paying high rents in the countryside. Tsurumi shows that through their experiences as Japan's first modern factory workers, these "factory girls" developed an identity that played a crucial role in the history of the Japanese working class. Much of this story is based on records the factory girls themselves left behind, including their songs. "It is a delight to receive a meticulous and comprehensive volume on the plight of women who pioneered [assembly plant] employment in Asia a century ago...."--L. L. Cornell, The Journal of Asian Studies "Tsurumi writes of these rural women with compassion and treats them as sentient, valuable individuals.... [Many] readers will find these pages informative and thought provoking."--Sally Ann Hastings, Monumenta Niponica

Women textile workers --- Silk industry --- Cotton trade --- History --- Employees --- Absenteeism. --- Advance loans. --- Beriberi. --- Bonuses. --- Child labor. --- Cotton industry. --- Death rates. --- Diseases. --- Earthquakes. --- Favoritism. --- Fukushima firm. --- Illiteracy. --- Illness. --- Landlordism. --- Male workers. --- Medical treatment. --- Nihon firm. --- Obon festival. --- Patriotism. --- Poverty. --- Punishment. --- Raiding. --- Rewards. --- Russo-Japanese War. --- Shift work. --- Strikebreakers. --- Suicide. --- Supervisors. --- Tokugawa government. --- U.S. cotton mills. --- Yamakawa Kikue.