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- Title
Socio-Cultural Evolution: Musical Progress as a Darwinian Instrument of Domination.
- Authors
LOOS, Helmut
- Abstract
The consequence of the Enlightenment period in the German-speaking territory was "the project of modernity" of social progress cherished by the bourgeois society, the establishment of artistic religion and empathic artistic music, as well as elevating the composers to the level of a genius who were perceived as the highest value. A universal belief in science made the analysis of music an ostensibly real guarantee of this music culture, whereas by historical critical estimation that was still a socially and territorially local phenomenon that lasted most probably for two hundred years. At the beginning Adolf Bernhard Marx and Franz Brendel were leading representatives of this movement and in the 20th century its representative was Theodor W. Adorno. Richard Wagner's latest works show that strong influence that the theories of biological evolution, beginning with the times of Charles Darwin and Hubert Spencer, made on treating music as progress; socio-cultural extension of that influence is observed in the works of neo-Darwinist August Weismann.
- Subjects
GERMAN influences on music; 18TH century music; WAGNER, Richard, 1813-1883; DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; SPENCER, Herbert, 1820-1903; ADORNO, Theodor W., 1903-1969; VON Petersdorff, Dirk
- Publication
Musicology of Lithuania / Lietuvos muzikologija, 2014, Issue 15, p102
- ISSN
1392-9313
- Publication type
Article