The Oxford handbook of the new cultural history of music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780195341867
Description: This volume demonstrates a new approach to cultural history, as it now being practiced by both historians and musicologists, in their quest to grasp the realms of human experience understanding, communication and meaning through the study of music and of musical practices.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Defining the new cultural history of music : its origins, current directions and methodologies / Jane F. Fulcher; title: Constructions or representations of the body, gender, sexuality, and race. A woman's place : antiphons and responsories for virgin martyrs in the office / James Borders ; Music, violence, and the stakes of listening / Richard Leppert ; Music and pain / Andreas Dorschel; title: Subjectivity and the shaping of the self in society. The road into the open : from narrative closure to the endless performance of subjectivity in Mahler and Freud at the turn of the century / John Toews ; Schoenberg, poet, priest, dictator : reassembling meaning in exceptional times / Julie Brown ; The strange landscape of middles / Michael Beckermann; title: Nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and trans-nationalism. The genre of national opera in European comparative perspective / Philipp Ther ; Cosmopolitan, national, and regional identities in European musical life / William Weber ; Mendelssohn on the road : music, travel, and the Anglo-German symbiosis / Celia Applegate; title: Popular and elite cultural intersections or exchanges. Shooting the keys : musical horseplay and high culture / Charles Garrett ; Yvette Guilbert and the revaluation of the chanson populaire during the Troisième République, 1889-1914 / Jacqueline Waeber ; Remembrance of jazz past : Sidney Bechet in France / Andy Fry; title: Urban, aural, and print culture. An evening at the opera in 17th-century Venice / Edward Muir ; Josquin des Prez, renaissance historiography and the cultures of print / Kate van Orden ; From "The voice of the Maréchal" to musique concrète : Pierre Schaeffer and the case for cultural history / Jane F. Fulcher; title: Symbols, icons, and sites of collective memory or ritual. A matter of style : state sacrificial music and cultural-political discourse in southern Song China (1127-1279) / Joseph Lam ; Ernani hats : opera as a repertory of political symbols during the Risorgimento / Carlotta Sorba ; Modalities of national identity : Sibelius builds a first symphony / James Hepokoski; title: Politics, aesthetics, and transmission.  Beethoven, Napoleon, and political romanticism / Leon Plantinga ; Translating Herder translating : cultural translation and the making of modernity / Philip Bohlman ; The eye of the needle : music as history after the era of recording / Leon Botstein; title: Afterward : Whose culture? Whose history? Whose music? / Michael P. Steinberg.