Relevance and marginalisation in Scandinavian and European performing arts 1770-1860 : questioning canons / edited by Randi Selvik, Annabella Skagen and Svien Gladsø.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Selvik, Randi M., 1944- editor.
• Skagen, Annabella, editor.
• Gladsø, Svein, editor.
• Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Arts and society--Scandinavia--History--18th century.
• Performing arts--Scandinavia--History--18th century.
• Performing arts--Scandinavia--History--19th century.
• Canon (Art).
• Performing arts.
• History.
• Arts and society.
• Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

• 1 online resource
• polychrome

Place of Publication:

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
• [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Randi Margrete Selvik is Professor Emeritus in musicology at the Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. Her primary research interests include music history from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, with French baroque opera, Nordic Singspiel, and musical dilettantism in Norway as important focus areas. Svein Gladsø is Professor Emeritus in theatre studies at theDepartment of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. His main research interests include theatre history, dramaturgy, theatre politics, and theatre theory. He has been chair of the Association of Nordic Theatre Scholars and the editor of Nordic Theatre Studies. Annabella Skagen is Senior Curator at Ringve Music Museum in Trondheim, Norway. She holds a PhD in theatre studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim (2015). Her main research interests include theatre and music history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, centring around performative practices within the contexts of politics, sociability, and identity.

Contents:

• 1 The (pre)history of canons p. 1 / Svein Gladsø
• 2 Meeting the masters: Repertory choices for young ladies p. 22 / Penelope Cave
• 3 Canonisation of the danced minuet over centuries p. 43 / Dóra Kiss
• 4 On the other side of the canon: August von Kotzebue as a popular playwright and controversial public persona p. 66 / Meike Wagner
• 5 Traces of dance and social life: A dance book and its context p. 87 / Elizabeth Svarstad
• 6 Outside canon: Anonymous music and informal cultural activities in Trondheim around 1800 p. 102 / Eva Hov
• 7 A private playlist? Repertory in Norwegian eighteenth-century musical clocks p. 128 / Mats Krouthén
• 8 Itinerant female performers in the Nordic sphere 1760-1774: Traceability and visibility p. 156 / Anne Margrete Fiskvik
• 9 The hybrid child: The preconditions, dissemination, and enduring popularity of equestrian drama p. 175 / Ellen Karoline Gjervan
• 10 Vittorio Alfieri's tramelogedia Abéle: A physiognomic reading of a marginalised play by a canonical author p. 188 / Maria-Christina Mur
• 11 Oehlenschläger's Freyas Altar: A rejected Singspiel performed p. 206 / Annabella Skagen
• 12 Forgotten music: Early Norwegian composers and Oehlenschläger's Freyas Altar p. 227 / Randi Margrete Selvik
• 13 Questioning the canons of Ibsen's theatre: Re-searching the relevance of Ibsen's theatre repertory, 1852-1862 p. 251 / Jon Nygaard.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Relevance and marginalisation in Scandinavian and European performing arts 1770-1860

ISBN:

• 9781003032090
• 1003032095
• 9781000296518
• 1000296512
• 9781000296549
• 1000296547
• 9781000296570
• 1000296571

Publisher Number:

99986591095

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