Music and Death (eBook, ePUB)

Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life
Redaktion: Marx, Wolfgang

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals, consoles survivors, and celebrates the deceased. Music & Death investigates different musical engagements with death. Its eleven essays examine a broad range of genres, styles and periods of Western music from the Middle Ages until the present day. This volume brings a variety of methodological approaches to bear on a broad, but non-exhaustive, range of music. These include musical rituals and intercessions on behalf of the departed. Chapters also focus on musicians' reactions to death, their ways of engaging with grief, anger and acceptance, and the public's reaction to the death of musicians. The genres covered include requiem settings, operas and ballets, arts songs, songs by Leonard Cohen and the B-52s, and instrumental music. There are also broader reflections regarding the psychological links between creative musical practice and the overcoming of grief, music's central role in shaping a specific lifestyle (of psychobillies) and the supposed universalism of Western art music (as exemplified by Brahms). The volume adds many new facets to the area of death studies, highlighting different aspects of "musical thanatology". It will appeal to those interested in the intersections between western music and theology, as well as scholars of anthropology and cultural studies. CONTRIBUTORS: Matt BaileyShea, Alexandra Buckle, Peter Edwards, Richard Elliott, Nicole Grimes, Mieko Kanno, Kimberly Kattari, Wolfgang Marx, Fred E. Maus, Jillian C. Rogers, UtaSailer and Miriam Wendling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805430216
• Artikelnr.: 68108771

Autorenporträt

Edited by Wolfgang Marx

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Wolfgang Marx Part I. Facets of Ritual: Requiems and Other
Funeral Music 1 Construction and Instruction: Medieval and Early Modern
Masses for the Dead Miriam Wendling 2 Commemorating the Elite Body in the
Fifteenth Century Alexandra Buckle 3 Types of Mercy and Non-liturgical
Dramaturgy: The Musical Requiem as a Concert Piece Wolfgang Marx Part II.
Negotiating Memory and Loss 4 'Aber auf einmal...': Death, Distance, and
Intimacy in Song Matt BaileyShea 5 Manifestations of Death in the Music of
Johannes Brahms Nicole Grimes 6 Through the Tears of Others: Staging Grief
and French Identity in Interwar Musical Theatre Jillian C. Rogers 7 Leaving
the Table: Intimations of Mortality in Leonard Cohen's Late and Posthumous
Work Richard Elliott Part III. Reflecting Death to Re-Evaluate Life 8 Death
in Music and Music in Death: Reflections on Mortality and Listening in the
Performances of Marino Formenti Peter Edwards and Uta Sailer 9 The Day the
Music Died: Searching for New Practices of Sharing in the Aftermath of the
Death of a Composer in Western Art Music Mieko Kanno 10 Imagining an Undead
Carnival: Psychobilly Fantasies of an Idealistic Afterlife Kimberly Kattari
11 The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance Fred E. Maus Bibliography Index