The Nature of Nordic Music (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Howell, Tim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term 'nature': the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physical world (landscape, climate, environment) inspire and condition creativity here.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315462844
• Artikelnr.: 57780189

Autorenporträt

Tim Howell is Professor of Music at the University of York, UK, where he specialises in the analysis of new music. As an internationally recognised authority on the music of Sibelius, his research has now broadened to encompass contemporary Finnish music. His major publications include After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music and Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: IDENTITIES
1. Nordicness in Scandinavian music: A complex question Michael Fjeldsøe &
Sanne Krogh Groth
2. Escaping Nordic musical exoticism? Hans Weisethaunet
3. In search of the Nordic electroacoustic Andrew Bentley & James Andean
4. Starting from scratch: Nation-building and the creation of an Icelandic
choral tradition Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
Part II: IMAGES
5. Not Nordic Enough? 'Nordic Cool' as a Janus-headed strategy for artistic
inclusion and expulsion Henrik Marstal
6. And Björk of course - the image of Icelandic music Margrét Sigrún
Sigurðardóttir
7. Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz
world Haftor Medboe
8. Folk and popular music in the Nordic countries Tor Dybo
Part III: ENVIRONMENTS
9. Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in the Water Soundscape Composition
Contest Meri Kytö
10. Nordic drone: Pedal points and static textures as musical imagery of
the northerly environment Juha Torvinen & Susanna Välimäki
11. Telling the time: Communication and temporality in Nordic new music
Tim Howell & Richard Powell
12. Sigur Rós: Talking timbre Michael Rofe