Rethinking difference in music scholarship / edited by Olivia Bloechl, Melanie Lowe, Jeffrey Kallberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloechl, Olivia Ashley, editor.

Lowe, Melanie Diane, 1969- editor.

Kallberg, Jeffrey, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Difference (Philosophy) in music.

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Gender identity in music.

Music and race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 434 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two decades after the publication of several landmark scholarly collections on music and difference, musicology has largely accepted difference-based scholarship. This collection of essays by distinguished contributors is a major contribution to this field, covering the key issues and offering an array of individual case studies and methodologies. It also grapples with the changed intellectual landscape since the 1990s. Criticism of difference-based knowledge has emerged from within and outside the discipline, and musicology has had to confront new configurations of difference in a changing world. This book addresses these and other such challenges in a wide-ranging theoretical introduction that situates difference within broader debates over recognition and explores alternative frameworks, such as redistribution and freedom. Voicing a range of perspectives on these issues, this collection reveals why differences and similarities among people matter for music and musical thought.

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking difference / Olivia Bloechl, with Melanie Lowe

He said, she said? : men hearing women in Medicean Florence / Suzanne G. Cusick

Race, empire, and early music / Olivia Bloechl

What Mr. Jefferson didn't hear / Bonnie Gordon

Difference and Enlightenment in Haydn's instrumental music / Melanie Lowe

Different masculinities : androgyny, effeminacy, and Rossini's La donna del lago / Heather Hadlock

Composing racial difference in Madama Butterfly : tonal language and power of Cio-Cio-San / Judy Tsou

Maurice Ravel's Chants populaires and the exotic within / Sindhumathi Revuluri

"Diving into the earth" : the musical worlds of Julius Eastman / Ellie M. Hisama

Synthesizing difference : the queer circuits of early synthpop / Judith A. Peraino

"Pranksta rap" : humor as difference in hip hop / Charles Hiroshi Garrett

Race and the aesthetics of vocal timbre / Nina Sun Eidsheim

Beneath difference : or, humanistic evolutionism / Gary Tomlinson

Difference unthought / Jairo Moreno.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-108-73323-9

1-316-19078-1

1-316-18892-2

1-316-21110-X

1-316-20924-5

1-316-20557-6

1-139-20845-4

1-316-20738-2

1-316-20374-3

1-316-20187-2