Musical Style and Social Meaning : Selected Essays / derek B. Scott (Professor of Critical Musicology, School of Music, Leeds University, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, derek B., author.

Series:

Ashgate contemporary thinkers on critical musicology.

Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Music--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations, musics.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied derek Scott's thoughts and driven his critical musicological research for many years. In this selection of essays, dating from 1995-2010, he returns time and again to examining how conventions of representation arise and how they become established. Among the themes of the collection are social class, ideology, national identity, imperialism, Orientalism, race, the sacred and profane, modernity and postmodernity, and the vexed relationship of art and entertainment. A wide variety of musical styles is discussed, ranging from jazz and popular song to the symphonic repertoire and opera."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter 1 Postmodernism and Music (1998) Postscript: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Musical Consensus (1998)

chapter 2 Bruckner's Symphonies - A Reinterpretation (2004)

chapter 3 Mimesis, Gesture, and Parody in Musical Word-Setting (2005)

part Part Two Jazz and Popular Music

chapter 4 The Jazz Age in Britain (1995)

chapter 5 Light Music and Easy Listening (2004)

chapter 6 The Britpop Sound (2010)

chapter 7 The Challenges of Assessing Popular Music Performance in Higher Education

part Part Three Orientalism, National Identity, and Ideology

chapter 8 Orientalism and Musical Style (1998)

chapter 9 Edward Said and the Interplay of Music, History, and Ideology (2009)

chapter 10 Imagining the Nation, Imagining Europe

part Part Four Politics, Class, and Englishness

chapter 11 Music and Social Class in Victorian London (2002)

chapter 12 English National Identity and the Comic Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan (2003)

chapter 13 The Power of Music (2005)

chapter 14 Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Popular Song

chapter 15 Sullivan's Demonic Tea-making Scene: Homage to Weber, or Parody? (2009)

part Part Five Ethnicity and Race

chapter 16 The Impact of Black Performance on the 19th-Century Stage (2005)

chapter 17 A Problem of Race in Directing Die Zauberflöte (2007)

chapter 18 In Search of Genetically Modified Music: Race and Musical Style in the Nineteenth Century (2006).

Notes:

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-55686-X

1-351-55687-8

1-315-09069-4

9781315090696

OCLC:

993655666