Applied Aesthetics and the Musical Public on the Threshold of Romanticism.

  • Published In: Journal of the History of Ideas, 2025, v. 86, n. 3. P. 537 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Strøm-Olsen, Rolf 3 of 3

Abstract

The rise of a musical public in the early nineteenth century has been recognized as an important example of what Habermas identified as the emerging bourgeois public sphere. This article explores how patterns of musical consumption were shaped by the authority of music-critical journalism, especially given contemporary critiques about the aesthetic worth of instrumental music. To assert music's aesthetic legitimacy, the leading music journal of the period developed a critical discourse, characterized by the use of an "applied aesthetics," to guide public preferences governing music consumption and to explicate these choices within larger philosophical debates about music's aesthetic value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Journal of the History of Ideas. 2025/07, Vol. 86, Issue 3, p537
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Arts and Entertainment
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0022-5037
  • DOI:10.1353/jhi.2025.a966905
  • Accession Number:187213925
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