Music, Society, Agency.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

November, Nancy.

Series:

Studies in the History and Sociology of Music Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Musicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023.

Summary:

This ten-chapter book explores how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential. It examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or less well represented in music's histories, and why?.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part One Cultural and Cross-Cultural Agencies

The Year the Music Died: Agency in the Context of Demise on Taku, Papua New Guinea

His Majestys Theatre: A Hub of Musical and Theatrical Entertainment in Colonial Dunedin

In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room: Musicalizing the South Pacific in Disney Theme Parks

Part Two Vocal Musics Agencies

Figaro Transmuted through the Agency of Neapolitan Social and Political Creatives: Niccolo Piccinnis La serva onorata

Josephinism and Leopold Kozeluhs Masonic Cantata Joseph der Menschheit Segen

Agency, Politics, and Opera Arrangements in Fanny Arnsteins Salons

Part Three Performance and Agency

Reflections on Aladdins Lamp: Creative Practice Research in-and-through Historically Informed Performance

When Your Heart is Set on Both Broadway and the Met: An Exploration of Vocal Technique in Contemporary Musical Theater

Part Four Composition and Agency

Ratners Topoi and the Cultural Middlebrow in Brittens First Suite for Cello

Provincializing Practice: Agency and Positionality in Cross-Cultural Music in Aotearoa New Zealand

Contributors

Index

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Other Format:

Print version: November, Nancy Music, Society, Agency

ISBN:

9798887193953

OCLC:

1425555048