Musical biography
Subtitle: towards new paradigms
By: edited by Jolanta T. Pekacz.
Contributors: Pekacz, Jolanta T., 1956-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Musicians -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Musicians -- Biography -- Political aspects.; Musicians -- Biography -- Social aspects.
Description: "The contributors to this volume challenge the view that biography has little importance for music history, analysis, and criticism. Collectively, they reassert biography's centrality and relevance, and demonstrate biography's potential to speak not only to the crucial questions that music analysis and criticism raise, but also to more general epistemological questions about the nature of music history itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Renovating" Bach and Handel: new musical biographies and the building of socialism / Toby Thacker; title: The nation's property : Chopin's biography as a cultural discourse / Jolanta T. Pekacz; title: Maurice Ravel : private life, public works / Steven Huebner; title: Lingering legends : Liszt after Walker / Michael Saffle; title: Fanny in Italy : the female composer as travel writer / Marian Wilson Kimber; title: This is (y)our life : (re-)writing women's autobiographies in music in nineteenth-century Germany / James Deaville; title: Unremarkable musical lives : autobiograhical narratives, music, and the shaping of the self / David Gramit; title: A life on film : Renato Castellani's the life of Verdi / John C. Tibbetts.