Essays on performativity and on surveying the field [electronic resource] / edited by Walter Bernhart in collaboration with Michael Halliwell.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bernhart, Walter.

Halliwell, Michael, 1950-

Conference Name:

International Conference on Word and Music Studies (7th : 2009 : Vienna, Austria)

Series:

Word and music studies ; 12.

Word and music studies ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature--Congresses.

Music and literature.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics--Congresses.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The main section of this volume of essays addresses the topic of ‘Performativity in Literature and Music’, a subject of high contemporary relevance since a substantial part of recent reflections in the humanities are concerned with the performance aspect of cultural activities, particularly in the arts. This decisive reorientation of scholarly interests in the arts, trendily called the ‘performative turn’, has yielded significant contributions to an increasingly refined understanding of artistic processes from an up-to-date perspective, and specifically what has been called the ‘crisis of the work concept’ has sharpened our awareness of the need of finding the ‘proper’ object of such scholarly investigations, which, as in most traditional studies, cannot be exclusively the written documents of our cultural heritage, but additionally, and essentially so, their actualizations in performance situations. This volume for the first time offers a set of careful case studies from a wide range of artistic genres (narrative fiction, poetry, opera, instrumental music, songs, jazz) and historical phases (from Elizabethan verse to 21st-century HD opera performances) which give detailed insight into consequences of addressing issues of performativity in the field of word and music studies. Closely examined examples range, in music, from the romantic reception of Bach and the opera singer Maria Malibran through Mahler and Schoenberg to Brigitte Fassbaender, Philip Glass and Charles Mingus, and, in literature, from Sidney through Yeats and Celan to Katherine Mansfield, Alejo Carpentier and Toni Morrison. In addition, the volume contains a smaller section on ‘Surveying the Field’ of word and music studies which includes an essay of general reflection on interart relationships and an attempt at identifying new features of the ‘musicalization of fiction’. This collection of essays will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: performance studies, intermediality studies, art theory, musicology, voice studies, literary criticism, and philosophy.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Performativity and the Musical Work of Art / Tobias Janz

Text vs. Act: The Bearbeitungsfrage and the ‘Romantic Baroque’ / David Francis Urrows

The Act of Performance as Mahlerian Topic / Robert Samuels

Politics, Music and Irony in Alejo Carpentier’s Novel La consagración de la primavera (The Rite of Spring) / Katia Chornik

Musical Performativity in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield / Delia da Sousa Correa

Rhythmical Ambivalence of Poetry Performance: The Case of Elizabethan Verse / Walter Bernhart

“Music will keep out temporary ideas”: W. B. Yeats’s Radio Performances / Adrian Paterson

‘The Invisible’ / ‘The Inaudible’: Aspects of Performativity in Celan and Leibowitz / Axel Englund

Romantic Opera and the Virtuoso / Simon Williams and Santa Barbara

Sexing Song: Brigitte Fassbaender’s Winterreise / Lawrence Kramer

Vocal Embodiment and Performing Language in Waiting for the Barbarians: Philip Glass’s Adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s Novel / Michael Halliwell

Operatic Hyperreality in the Twenty-First Century: Performance Documentation in High-Definition Quality / Bernhard Kuhn

Jazz Novels and the Textualization of Musical Performance / Emily Petermann

Charles Mingus and Performative Composing / Mario Dunkel

Wittgenstein and Schoenberg on Performativity of Music as Method for Philosophy / Katrin Eggers

Seeing Words and Music as a Painter Might: The Interart Aesthetic / Peter Dayan

Milan Kundera’s Polyphonic Novels and the Poetics of Divestment / David Mosley

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Revised papers from the 7th International Conference on Word and Music Studies, June 2009, Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-39473-0

9786613572653

94-012-0745-3

OCLC:

796785235

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401207454 DOI