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Dreams of love : playing the romantic pianist / Ivan Raykoff.

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'Dreams of Love' pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the concert pianist as a 'Romantic' and seductive-even erotic-figure in the popular imagination focusing on the role of technology in perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries throug...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Author: Raykoff, Ivan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Pianists > 19th century.
Pianists > 20th century.
Piano music > 19th century > History and criticism.
Piano music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Popular culture > 20th century.
Music > Social aspects.
Music > Psychological aspects.
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Summary:'Dreams of Love' pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the concert pianist as a 'Romantic' and seductive-even erotic-figure in the popular imagination focusing on the role of technology in perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries through the touch, sights and sounds of the pianist's playing.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199369669 (ebook)
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199892679.001.0001
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 5, 2013)

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