Laughter and Forgetting. Moritz Csáky: Ideologie der Operette und Wiener Moderne: Ein kulturhistorisches Essay zur österreichischen Identität
Laughter and Forgetting. Moritz Csáky: Ideologie der Operette und Wiener Moderne: Ein kulturhistorisches Essay zur österreichischen Identität
Author(s): Nicholas T. ParsonsSubject(s): Cultural history, Music, Review, Sociology of Art, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Budapesti Könyvszemle Alapítvány
Keywords: Laughter and Forgetting; Moritz Csáky;
Summary/Abstract: James Joyce once remarked that the soul of a culture is to be found in its music halls; by the same token, the gospels of Postmodernism preach that popular entertainment is as worthy of academic study as any other cultural phenomenon, a laudably democratic stance that neatly side-steps the thorny question of aesthetic value by subsuming it in sociology or history.
Journal: Books - Budapest Review of Books - English Edition
- Issue Year: 5/1996
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 180-188
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
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