Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration and Usage -- Introduction: In Search of Unity -- ONE: Musical Metaphysics in Late Imperial Russia -- TWO: Aleksandr Scriabin: Music and Salvation -- THREE: The Medtner Brothers: Orpheus in an Age of Nationalism -- FOUR: Ser…
A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this …
Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images--illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera--to…