The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century - Irving, D R M
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In this book, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories as "European music" and "Western music," showing how they originate from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the European continent rather than the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates how reductive labels for the musics of a continent or a hemisphere often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.…mehr

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In this book, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories as "European music" and "Western music," showing how they originate from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the European continent rather than the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates how reductive labels for the musics of a continent or a hemisphere often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.
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D. R. M. Irving is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Barcelona. His research focuses on the role of music in early modern colonialism and intercultural contact. He is the author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila, co-editor with W. Dean Sutcliffe of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music, and co-general editor with Alexander Rehding of A Cultural History of Western Music. As a performer on the early violin, he has played with ensembles in Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.