Full Description
Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. A Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms - ritual, classical, popular and commercial. The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history.
The volumes are:
1. A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity
2. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages
3. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
4. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment
5. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age
6. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Themes (and chapter titles) are: identity, communities and society; changing philosophies and ideas about music; politics and power; musical exchange and knowledge transfer between the West and the non-West; musical education; popular culture and musical entertainment; the places, practices, and experiences of performance; and the development of music technologies and media.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1712pp. Each volume opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Western Music is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
Contents
Vol 1: A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity
Edited by Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVen
Introduction: Ancient Music, Then and Now, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen
1. Society: Culture, Cohesion, and Crisis, Lauren Curtis
2. Philosophies: Musical Knowing, Tom Phillips
3. Politics: Musical Symbols and Civic Rhythms, Sarah Olsen
4. Exchange: Music Between Species and Culture, Sean Gurd
5. Education: Myth, Ritual, and Socialization, Carolyn Laferrière
6. Popular Culture: At the Festival, Hanna Golab
7. Performance: Ghosts, Identity, Ontologies, Pauline LeVen
8. Technologies: From Minds to Machines, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen
Vol 2: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages
Edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming
Introduction: Music Defined and Distributed in the Western Middle Ages, Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming
1. Society: Practicing Music Under Ecclesiastical Dominance, Nils Holger Petersen
2. Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony, Andrew Hicks and Jonathan Morton
3. Politics: Courts, Conquests, and Crusades, Helen Deeming
4. Exchange: Liturgical Reform, Pilgrimage, and Saints' Cults, Rebecca Maloy
5. Education: Growing Up In Music, Susan Boynton and Anne Levitsky
6. Popular Culture: In Search of Lost Practices, Meghan Quinlan and Joseph W. Mason
7. Performance: On Absent Sounds, Notes, and Words, Anna Zayaruznaya
8. Technologies: Instruments and Notation, David Catalunya
Vol 3: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
Edited by Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman
Introduction: Mobilizing Music, Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman
1. Society: Music, Musicians, and the Renaissance Social Order, Kirsten Gibson
2. Philosophies: The Crisis of Musical Knowledge, Melinda Latour
3. Politics: Staging Power, Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard
4. Exchange: Conduits, Objects, and Earwitnesses, Evan A. MacCarthy
5. Education: Music Among the Challenges of Early Modernity, Daniele V. Filippi
6. Popular Culture: Three Cases and Some Observations, Remi Chiu
7. Performance: Expression, Emotion, and Identity, Jeanice Brooks
8. Technologies: Music, Art, and Techne in the Renaissance, Richard Freedman
Vol 4: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert
Introduction: Musicking in the Age of Enlightenment, David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert
1. Society: Music and Community, Estelle Joubert
2. Philosophies: Making Sense of Vibration, Roger Mathew Grant
3. Politics: Music and the Law, Rebekah Ahrendt
4. Exchange: Musical Transactions Around the World, David R.M. Irving
5. Education: Forming Musical Identities, Stephen Rose
6. Popular Culture: Let's Use Scare Quotes, Elisabeth Le Guin
7. Performance: On and Off the Page, Geoffrey Burgess
8. Technologies: Musical Media of Enlightenment, Rebecca Cypess
Vol 5: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age
Edited by Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-Smith
Introduction: Toppling Romanticism, Naomi Waltham-Smith and Alexander Rehding
1. Society: Unthinking Musical History, Benjamin Walton
2. Philosophy: The Rise of Materiality, Michael Gallope
3. Politics: The Unexceptional Politicking of Labor, Enjoyment, and Obstruction, Naomi Waltham-Smith
4. Exchange: The Geopolitics of Ethnographic Recordings, Music, and Sound, Ana M. Ochoa Gautier
5. Education: Discipline and Delight, Laura Tunbridge
6. Popular Culture: Whose Music? What People?, Adrian Daub
7. Performance: Making Music Manifest, Roger Moseley
8. Technology: Composing in Sounds, Alexander Rehding
Vol 6: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Edited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Introduction: The Stories We Hope to Share, William Cheng
1. Society: Global Trajectories and the Universal-Particular Paradox, Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
2. Philosophy: Theosophy and Esoteric Musical Modernism, Anna Gawboy
3. Politics: Music, Nation States, and the "Small World" in the Long Twentieth Century, Danielle Fosler-Lussier
4. Exchange: Modernist Approaches across Oceans and Borders, Marysol Quevedo
5. Education: Children's Music and Visions of Citizenship, Anicia Timberlake
6. Popular Culture: Musical Performance as Cultural Activism, Ellie M. Hisama
7. Performance: The Changing Norm of Musical Practice in Everyday Life, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
8. Technology: Media, Myths, and Movements, Penny Brandt and Rob Deemer
