Title: Musical Style and Social Meaning: Selected Essays
Abstract:Contents: Introduction Part 1 Music Criticism and Theory: Postmodernism and music: postscript Modernism, postmodernism and musical consensus Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation Mimesis, gesture...Contents: Introduction Part 1 Music Criticism and Theory: Postmodernism and music: postscript Modernism, postmodernism and musical consensus Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation Mimesis, gesture, and parody in musical word-setting. Part 2 Jazz and Popular Music: The Jazz Age in Britain Light music and easy listening The Britpop sound The challenges of assessing popular music performance in higher education. Part 3 Orientalism, National Identity, and Ideology: Orientalism and musical style Edward Said and the interplay of music, history, and ideology Imagining the nation, imagining Europe. Part 4 Politics, Class and Englishness: Music and social class in Victorian London English national identity and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan The power of music Imperialism and anti-imperialism in 19th-century popular song Sullivan's demonic tea-making scene: homage to Weber or parody? Part 5 Ethnicity and Race: The impact of Black performance on the 19th-century stage A problem of race in directing Die Zauberflote In search of genetically modified music: race and musical style in the 19th century Index.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-10-28
Language: en
Type: book
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