Global perspectives on orchestras : collective creativity and social agency / [edited by] Tina K. Ramnarine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramnarine, Tina K.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Series:

Studies in musical performance as creative practice ; volume 4.

Studies in musical performance as creative practice ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orchestra--Social aspects.

Orchestra.

Music in intercultural communication.

Postcolonialism and music.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Community and capital in orchestral contexts

1 Cultural demand and supply in an imperial trading centre: developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the mid-nineteenth century p. 25 / Fiona M. Palmer

2 Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra p. 44 / Henry Johnson

3 Musical ambition and community-building in Trinidad and Tobago's steel orchestras p. 58 / Shannon Dudley

4 Steel orchestras and tassa bands: multiculturalism, collective creativity, and debating co-national instruments in Trinidad and Tobago p. 81 / Christopher L. Ballengee

5 Pioneering the orchestra-owned label: LSO Live in an industry in crisis p. 100 / Ananay Aguilar

Part 2 Intercultural orchestral collaborations

6 Voices on the wind: eddies of possibility for Australia's orchestral future p. 119 / Samuel Curkpatrick

7 The women's international gamelan group at the Pondok Pekak: intercultural collective music-making and performance in Bali, Indonesia p. 137 / Jonathan Mcintosh

8 Gamelanesque effects: musical impressions of Java and Bali in interwar America p. 156 / Matthew Isaac Cohen

9 'Every town our home town': how a Finnish symphony orchestra collaborates with South Indian Carnatic musicians p. 172 / Eero Hämeenniemi

10 Orchestra and song: musical narratives in Tamil films p. 186 / Mekala Padmanabhan

11 The Hindi film orchestra; cinema, sounds and meanings p. 209 / Anna Morcom

12 Orchestras and musical intersections with regimental bands, blackface minstrel troupes, and jazz in India, 1830s-1940s p. 226 / Bradley Shope

Part 3 Decolonizing and postcolonial orchestral contexts

13 Tiki Taane's With Strings Attached: Alive & Orchestrated and postcolonial identity politics in New Zealand p. 245 / Oli Wilson

14 State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore p. 261 / Shzr Ee Tan

15 The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain: examining the orchestra in its economic and institutional environments p. 282 / Benjamin Wolf

16 Orchestrating the nation: court orchestras, nationalism and agency in Vietnam p. 301 / Barley Norton

17 Orchestral connections in the cultures of decolonization: reflections on British, Caribbean and Indian contexts p. 324 / Tina K. Ramnarine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 07, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Global perspectives on orchestras.

ISBN:

9780199352258

0199352259

9780199352241

0199352240

Publisher Number:

99975920367

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