Notes Toward a New Romanticism

added by Severin Matusek · updated 4mo ago

By the way, this book could perhaps be described as the result of my own personal quest. For many years now, I have built my research and writing on a very simple statement of purpose—which I repeat, almost as a mantra, on every possible occasion, in print or public lectures: Music is a source of enchantment and a catalyst in human life , and my vo... See more
from Music to Raise the Dead: The Secret Origins of Musicology by Ted Gioia
Faith Hahn and added
As a writer and culture critic, I operate at the intersection between these corporations and the mass audience. My influence is limited, but if I don’t play a part in trying to revitalize and refresh our artistic idioms, I will have wasted much of the potential of my vocation.

This is why, for example, I listen to so much new music and read so many ... See more
from My 12 Favorite Problems by Ted Gioia
Emily Li added
Quantified, efficient selves—the good news is: we’ve been there before. The original Romantic Movement—toward the end of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth—emerged in response to the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment.
from The Business Romantic by Tim Leberecht
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from Music to Raise the Dead: The Secret Origins of Musicology by Ted Gioia