The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music (Oxford Handbooks)

As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself. --Publisher descriprion This Volume Demonstrates A New Approach To Cultural History, As It Now Being Practiced By Both Historians And Musicologists, In Their Quest To Grasp The Realms Of Human Experience Understanding, Communication And Meaning Through The Study Of Music And Of Musical Practices. Introduction. Defining The New Cultural History Of Music : Its Origins, Current Directions And Methodologies / Jane F. Fulcher -- Constructions Or Representations Of The Body, Gender, Sexuality, And Race. A Woman's Place : Antiphons And Responsories For Virgin Martyrs In The Office / James Borders ; Music, Violence, And The Stakes Of Listening / Richard Leppert ; Music And Pain / Andreas Dorschel -- Subjectivity And The Shaping Of The Self In Society. The Road Into The Open : From Narrative Closure To The Endless Performance Of Subjectivity In Mahler And Freud At The Turn Of The Century / John Toews ; Schoenberg, Poet, Priest, Dictator : Reassembling Meaning In Exceptional Times / Julie Brown ; The Strange Landscape Of Middles / Michael Beckermann -- Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, And Trans-nationalism. The Genre Of National Opera In European Comparative Perspective / Philipp Ther ; Cosmopolitan, National, And Regional Identities In European Musical Life / William Weber ; Mendelssohn On The Road : Music, Travel, And The Anglo-german Symbiosis / Celia Applegate -- Popular And Elite Cultural Intersections Or Exchanges. Shooting The Keys : Musical Horseplay And High Culture / Charles Garrett ; Yvette Guilbert And The Revaluation Of The Chanson Populaire During The Troisième République, 1889-1914 / Jacqueline Waeber ; Remembrance Of Jazz Past : Sidney Bechet In France / Andy Fry -- Urban, Aural, And Print Culture. An Evening At The Opera In 17th-century Venice / Edward Muir ; Josquin Des Prez, Renaissance Historiography And The Cultures Of Print / Kate Van Orden ; From The Voice Of The Maréchal To Musique Concrète : Pierre Schaeffer And The Case For Cultural History / Jane F. Fulcher -- Symbols, Icons, And Sites Of Collective Memory Or Ritual. A Matter Of Style : State Sacrificial Music And Cultural-political Discourse In Southern Song China (1127-1279) / Joseph Lam ; Ernani Hats : Opera As A Repertory Of Political Symbols During The Risorgimento / Carlotta Sorba ; Modalities Of National Identity : Sibelius Builds A First Symphony / James Hepokoski -- Politics, Aesthetics, And Transmission. Beethoven, Napoleon, And Political Romanticism / Leon Plantinga ; Translating Herder Translating : Cultural Translation And The Making Of Modernity / Philip Bohlman ; The Eye Of The Needle : Music As History After The Era Of Recording / Leon Botstein -- Afterward : Whose Culture? Whose History? Whose Music? / Michael P. Steinberg. Edited By Jane F. Fulcher. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music Dedication Acknowledgments Contributors I Cultural Identity and Its Expression: Constructions, Representations, and Exchanges Gender, Performativity, and Allusion in Medieval Services for the Consecration of Virgins James Borders Music, Violence, and the Stakes of Listening Richard Leppert Music and Pain Andreas Dorschel “The Road into the Open”: From Narrative Closure to the Endless Performance of Subjectivity in Mahler and Freud at the Turn of the Century John E. Toews Understanding Schoenberg as Christ Julie Brown The Strange Landscape of Middles Michael Beckerman The Genre of National Opera in a European Comparative Perspective Philipp Ther Cosmopolitan, National, and Regional Identities in Eighteenth-Century European Musical Life William Weber Mendelssohn on the Road: Music, Travel, and the Anglo-German Symbiosis Celia Applegate “Shooting the Keys”: Musical Horseplay and High Culture Charles Hiroshi Garrett Yvette Guilbert and the Revaluation of the Chanson Populaire and Chanson Ancienne during the Third Republic, 1889–1914 Jacqueline Waeber Remembrance of Jazz Past: Sidney Bechet in France Andy Fry II Cultural Experience: Practices, Appropriations, and Evaluations An Evening at the Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice Edward Muir Josquin des Prez, Renaissance Historiography, and the Cultures of Print Kate van Orden From “the Voice of the Maréchal” to Musique Concrète: Pierre Schaeffer and the Case for Cultural History Jane F. Fulcher A Matter of Style: State Sacrificial Music and Cultural-Political Discourse in Southern Song China (1127–1279) Joseph S. C. Lam Ernani Hats: Italian Opera as a Repertoire of Political Symbols during the Risorgimento Carlotta Sorba Modalities of National Identity: Sibelius Builds a First Symphony James Hepokoski Beethoven, Napoleon, and Political Romanticism Leon Plantinga Translating Herder Translating: Cultural Translation and the Making of Modernity Philip V. Bohlman The Eye of the Needle: Music as History after the Age of Recording Leon Botstein Afterword: Whose Culture? Whose History? Whose Music? Michael P. Steinberg End Matter Index __The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music__ cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. This book demonstrates how music is becoming a unique mode of access into specific cites of cultural representation, exchange, contestation, and the construction of experience. This volume demonstrates a new approach to cultural history, as it is now being practiced by both historians and musicologists, in their quest to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, communication and meaning through the study of music and of musical practices. Characteristic of their approach is to employ a resonant new methodological synthesis which combines the theoretical perspectives drawn from the "new cultural history" and "new musicology" of the 1980s with recent social, sociological, and anthropological theories, or those which attempt to ground language and symbols within both social reality and a social field of power.