A History of Welsh Music

Herausgeber: Barlow, Helen; Herbert, Trevor; Clarke, Martin V.

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Produktbeschreibung

"All histories of music need contexts, but some more than others. The relevant contexts, at least in western music, have been patronage (whether benevolent or commercial), cultural production and distribution, the audiences for which music has been written and performed, the needs and purposes it has served, and how continuities have been interrupted by musical or extra-musical interventions. It would not be an enormous step to think of Welsh music history in similar terms were it not for the sizeable adjustment needed because Welsh music has not consistently followed the path of the mainstream European tradition. There is no body of secular works in the art music category from before the mid-twentieth century that has gained sustained public interest or deserved serious analytical attention, so no claim can be made for Welsh music to have a composer-led history. It can therefore reasonably be asked why Wales should famously be regarded as a 'musical nation' and a 'land of song'. These could be dismissed as stock phrases of the type routinely tagged to national stereotypes, which gain currency by repetition, but it would be a mistake to pass over them too lightly. They deserve unpicking because they contain historical substance, and to an extent, have configured the way the Welsh have regarded themselves and how others have often described them"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781009005265
• ISBN-10: 100900526X
• Artikelnr.: 69522916

Inhaltsangabe

1. Music in Welsh history Trevor Herbert
2. Words for music: describing musical practices in medieval Welsh literature Helen Fulton
3. Music in worship before 1650 John Harper
4. Secular music before 1650 Sally Harper
5. The eisteddfod tradition Rhidian Griffiths
6. Women and Welsh folk song Wyn Thomas
7. Instrumental traditions after 1650 Rhidian Griffiths, Trevor Herbert and Stephen P. Rees
8. The Celtic revival Helen Barlow
9. Musical communications in the long nineteenth century Rhidian Griffiths
10. Nonconformists and their music Martin V. Clarke
11. Professionalisation in the twentieth century Lyn Davies
12. Composing Cymru: Art music since 1940 Nicholas Jones
13. Traditions and interventions: popular music 1840-1940 Trevor Herbert
14. New traditions: Welsh popular music into the twenty-first century Sarah Hill
15. Singing Welshness: Sport, music and the Crowd Helen Barlow and Martin V. Clarke
16. Postscript: Contemporary Wales, devolution and digitisation Trevor Herbert, Sally Harper and Sarah Hill.