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The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments
Redaktion: Cottrell, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to connect the material aspects of musical instruments with their social functions, this volume brings together leading voices from new wave of research on musical instruments at the center of cultural interactions. An essential read for students, academics and general readers of music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000928938
• Artikelnr.: 68452576

Autorenporträt

Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London. His previous books include Professional Music-Making in London,The Saxophone, Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context (co-edited with Julie Brown and Nicholas Cook), and Music, Dance, Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments - An Overview



Stephen Cottrell



Instrumental Interlude #1: The Skoog-Ben Schögler and David Skulina

Part I: Ecology, Production and Communities of Practice

1. The Social Production of a Mallorcan Bagpipe: Collaboration, Technology, Ecology and Internationalisation



Cassandre Balosso-Bardin



2. Feeling Analogue: Using Modular Synthesisers, Designing Synthesis Communities



Eliot Bates



3. Re-inventing the Herati Dutâr: Some Cultural and Social Repercussions



John Baily



4. Musical Instruments as Material Culture: A Case Study of the Cretan Lyra



Kevin Dawe



Instrumental Interlude #2: The Yaybahar-Görkem Sen

Instrumental Interlude #3: Eli Gras

Part II: The Circulation of Instruments

5. Charlie Parker, Massey Hall and Grafton 10265: Musical Instruments and the Telling of Tales



Stephen Cottrell



6. What's in a Name?: Carving an Indian Identity into the Slide-Guitar



André J.P. Elias



7. Playing for God: Brass Instruments of the Moravian Brethren in the Atlantic World



Stewart Carter



Instrumental Interlude #4: The Fluid Piano-Geoffrey Smith

Instrumental Interlude #5: The Pikasso Guitar-Linda Manzer

Part III: Reframing History Through Instruments

8. Arcadian Tones: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Austrian Maultrommel



Deirdre Morgan



9. Musical Instruments as Traded Commodities: The Makers' Perspective



Jenny Nex



10. Military Musical Instruments and the Culture of Perfection in the Long Nineteenth Century



Trevor Herbert