Global Perspectives on Orchestras offers innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras. It adopts ethnographic and comparative perspectives on symphony, Caribbean steel, Indian film orchestras and Indonesian gamelan ensembles. By considering the orchestra in diverse historical, intercultural and postcolonial contexts, the volume generates enhanced appreciation of this creative, political and social practice.
Global Perspectives on Orchestras offers innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras. It adopts ethnographic and comparative perspectives on symphony, Caribbean steel, Indian film orchestras and Indonesian gamelan ensembles. By considering the orchestra in diverse historical, intercultural and postcolonial contexts, the volume generates enhanced appreciation of this creative, political and social practice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tina K. Ramnarine is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Following a career as an orchestral violinist she has held academic appointments in music and anthropology. Her research is based on social theory, performance skills and multi-sited fieldwork (including northern Europe, the Caribbean, India and Indonesia). She has published widely on music, politics and global challenges.
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* Contents * List of Illustrations * Contributors * Introduction: Global perspectives on orchestras * Tina K. Ramnarine * Part 1: Community and Capital in Orchestral Contexts * Chapter 1: Cultural demand and supply in an imperial trading centre: developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the mid-nineteenth century * Fiona M. Palmer * Chapter 2: Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra * Henry Johnson * Chapter 3: Musical ambition and community-building in Trinidad and Tobago's steel orchestras * Shannon Dudley * Chapter 4: Steel orchestras and tassa bands: multiculturalism, collective creativity, and debating co-national instruments in Trinidad and Tobago * Christopher L. Ballengee * Chapter 5: Pioneering the orchestra-owned label: LSO Live in an industry in crisis * Ananay Aguilar * Part 2: Intercultural Orchestral Collaborations * Chapter 6: Voices on the wind: eddies of possibility for Australia's orchestral future * Samuel Curkpatrick * Chapter 7: The women's international gamelan group at the Pondok Pekak: intercultural collective music making and performance in Bali, Indonesia * Jonathan McIntosh * Chapter 8: Gamelanesque effects: musical impressions of Java and Bali in interwar America, Matthew Isaac Cohen * Chapter 9: 'Every town our home town': how a Finnish symphony orchestra collaborates with South Indian Carnatic musicians * Eero Hämeenniemi * Chapter 10: Orchestra and song: musical narratives in Tamil films * Mekala Padmanabhan * Chapter 11: The Hindi film orchestra: cinema, sounds and meanings * Anna Morcom * Chapter 12: Orchestras and musical intersections with regimental bands, black minstrel troupes, and jazz in India, 1830s-1940s * Bradley Shope * Part 3: Decolonizing and Postcolonial Orchestral Contexts * Chapter 13: Tiki Taane's With Strings Attached: Alive and Orchestrated and postcolonial identity politics in New Zealand * Oli Wilson * Chapter 14: State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore * Shzr Ee Tan * Chapter 15: The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain: examining the orchestra in its economic and institutional environments * Benjamin Wolf * Chapter 16: Orchestrating the nation: court orchestras, nationalism and agency in Vietnam * Barley Norton * Chapter 17: Orchestral connections in the cultures of decolonization: reflections on British, Caribbean and Indian contexts * Tina K. Ramnarine * Index
* Contents * List of Illustrations * Contributors * Introduction: Global perspectives on orchestras * Tina K. Ramnarine * Part 1: Community and Capital in Orchestral Contexts * Chapter 1: Cultural demand and supply in an imperial trading centre: developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the mid-nineteenth century * Fiona M. Palmer * Chapter 2: Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra * Henry Johnson * Chapter 3: Musical ambition and community-building in Trinidad and Tobago's steel orchestras * Shannon Dudley * Chapter 4: Steel orchestras and tassa bands: multiculturalism, collective creativity, and debating co-national instruments in Trinidad and Tobago * Christopher L. Ballengee * Chapter 5: Pioneering the orchestra-owned label: LSO Live in an industry in crisis * Ananay Aguilar * Part 2: Intercultural Orchestral Collaborations * Chapter 6: Voices on the wind: eddies of possibility for Australia's orchestral future * Samuel Curkpatrick * Chapter 7: The women's international gamelan group at the Pondok Pekak: intercultural collective music making and performance in Bali, Indonesia * Jonathan McIntosh * Chapter 8: Gamelanesque effects: musical impressions of Java and Bali in interwar America, Matthew Isaac Cohen * Chapter 9: 'Every town our home town': how a Finnish symphony orchestra collaborates with South Indian Carnatic musicians * Eero Hämeenniemi * Chapter 10: Orchestra and song: musical narratives in Tamil films * Mekala Padmanabhan * Chapter 11: The Hindi film orchestra: cinema, sounds and meanings * Anna Morcom * Chapter 12: Orchestras and musical intersections with regimental bands, black minstrel troupes, and jazz in India, 1830s-1940s * Bradley Shope * Part 3: Decolonizing and Postcolonial Orchestral Contexts * Chapter 13: Tiki Taane's With Strings Attached: Alive and Orchestrated and postcolonial identity politics in New Zealand * Oli Wilson * Chapter 14: State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore * Shzr Ee Tan * Chapter 15: The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain: examining the orchestra in its economic and institutional environments * Benjamin Wolf * Chapter 16: Orchestrating the nation: court orchestras, nationalism and agency in Vietnam * Barley Norton * Chapter 17: Orchestral connections in the cultures of decolonization: reflections on British, Caribbean and Indian contexts * Tina K. Ramnarine * Index
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