Title: Sounds, societies, significations :
Authors: Povilionienė, Rima,
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer,
Physical description: 240 pages : illustrations, charts, music ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: This edited book covers many topics in musicological literature, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well frequented in musicology. As readers will see, music has many roles to play in society. Music can be a generator of social phenomena, or a result of them; it can enhance or activate social actions, or simply co-habit with them. Above all, music has a stable position within society, in that it actively participates in it. Music can either describe or prescribe social aspects; musicians may have a certain position/role in society (e.g., the "popstar" as fashion leader, spokesman for political issues, etc.). Depending on the type of society, music may have a certain "meaning" or "function" (music does not mean the same thing everywhere in the world). Lastly, music can define a society, and it is not uncommon for it to best define a particular historical moment. Case-studies in this work provide visibility for musical cultures that are rarely exposed in the dominant musicological discourse. Several contributions combine musicological analysis with "insider-musician" points of view. Some essays in the collection address the cultural clash between certain types of music/musicians and the respective institutional counterparts, while certain contributing authors draw on experimental research findings. Throughout this book we see how musics are socially significant, and - at the same time - that societies are musically significant too. Thus the book will appeal to musicologists, cultural scholars and semioticians, amongst others.
Contents: Part I : Musical creation and percpetion as a socio-cultural phenomena. Labyrinthes d'Adrien by Costin Miereanu or the topology of rputures and junctions / Oana Andreica ; The diversity of artistic work as a response to the needs of contemporary culture : on Adam Walaciński's oeuvre / Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor ; A phenomenon of string quartet in the works of Kraków composers from 1960s / Ewa Wójtowicz ; Music and associations : cultural impact of musical perception / Ulrika Varankaitė -- Part II : Establishing the musical identities : cultural, political and social perspectives. Stanisław Moniuszko's ouevre as a builder of national identity during partition times / Magdalena Chrenkoff ; Music as national identity manifesto : the musical repertoire of Lithuanian evenings at the beginning of the 20th century / Rima Povilionienė ; New Romanticism in Polish music : Generation 51 : Knapik, Krzanowski, Lasón / Kinga Kiwała ; Via crucis and Resurrectio by Paweł Łukaszewski : in the circle of Christian culture / Renata Borowiecka -- Part III : Analytical and interdisciplinary approaches to the musical text. Musical narrative in representing Hiroshima : a case study of Erkki Aaltonen's Second symphony Hiroshima (1949) / Yumi Notohara ; The theme of death in the music of Paweł Łukaszewski / Renata Borowiecka ; Religious motifs and existential reflection in Zbigniew Bujarski's chamber music / Ewa Wójtowicz ; Musitecture : musical space, spatial music : sonorous thresholds in time-space intersections / Gerard Guerra López -- Research into popular music. The years of 883 : Italian popular music at the time of commercial broadcasting / Jacopo Tomatis ; "Where is the orchestra?" : the Sanremo Festival through the 80s and the 80s through the Sanremo Festival / Jacopo Conti ; Political and ehtical values of the music of Manowar / Paolo Ribaldini -- A survey of musical signification. Musical signification : a systematic, analytical and pedagogical approach / Joan Grimalt.
Notes: "The collection of articles ... was prepared on the basis of scholarly investigations that were presented at the International Congress of Numanities (IcoN) 2014 and 2015, Kaunas, Lithuania" -- Page v. "This edited book covers many topics in musicological literatures, gathering various approaches to music studies that encapsulate the vivid relation music has to society. It focusses on repertoires and geographical areas that have not previously been well represented in musicology." -- Page [4] of cover.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--Social aspects--Congresses.