Musical Biography

Towards New Paradigms
Herausgeber: Pekacz, Jolanta T

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The epistemological upheavals in the humanities since the 1960s have generated a body of theoretical thought that has undermined many of the assumptions of traditional biography. For example, the accumulation of facts is no longer believed to bring us closer to an understanding of the subject; nor are the traditional views of the unified self and the self as a foundational idea taken for granted. This volume brings together musicologists and historians who explore, through individual case studies, the rich potential of these new theories for writing musical lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138271050
• ISBN-10: 1138271055
• Artikelnr.: 50442488

Autorenporträt

Jolanta T. Pekacz is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Jolanta T. Pekacz
'Renovating' Bach and Handel: new musical biographies in the German Democratic Republic, Toby Thacker
The nation's property: Chopin's biography as a cultural discourse, Jolanta T. Pekacz
Maurice Ravel: private life, public works, Steven Huebner
Lingering legends: Liszt after Walker, Michael Saffle
Fanny in Italy: the female composer as travel writer, Marian Wilson Kimber
This is (y)our life: (re)writing women's autobiographies in music in 19th-century Germany, James Deaville
Unremarkable musical lives: autobiographical narratives, music, and the shaping of the self, David Gramit
A life on film: Renato Castellani's The Life of Verdi, John C. Tibbetts
Bibliography
Index.