Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. The Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms – ritual, classical, popular and commercial – from antiquity to today. The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history. The volumes are:
1. A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity
2. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages
3. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
4. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment
5. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age
6. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
The topics are identity, communities and society; changing philosophies and ideas about music; politics and power; musical exchange and knowledge transfer between the West and the non-West; musical education; popular culture and musical entertainment; the places, practices, and experiences of performance; and the development of music technologies and media.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1712pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Western Music is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
The first comprehensive history of western music from antiquity to today.
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These impressive six volumes bring brilliantly into focus the preferred perspectives of the early twenty-first century as applied to the cultural history of music perspectives alert to racism, gender, colonial guilt, slavery, the marginalization of certain types and classes of music, unconscious hierarchies and biases, and cross-cultural exchanges and appropriations This is a history for a generation that has finally emerged from under the long shadow of Romanticism, that is not afraid to interrogate in depth the Wests self-serving grand narratives of its own past, and one that lives in a world where the ocean of knowledge is no longer construed as a fixed. * Music and Letters * Superlatives fail to describe the achievement made by these six volumes. Truly a landmark work in the history of music, this set deserves a place in the library of any musicologist. * Sun News Austin * A valuable new resource that takes a distinctive approach to constructing the music historical narrative The chapters tend to offer both an accessible introduction to their theme and also the process of investigating and conceptualizing the musical past The critically reflective nature of the chapters will engage students in thinking about the challenges of investigating and interpreting the musical past, while providing specific case studies to ground such discussions The chosen thematic threads support the creation of a music history that begins to embrace the challenge of better representing the breadth of who participates in musical activity and how within a chronological broad narrative. The positioning of Western music in a global context and a focus on musical mobility is also a feature The result is that Western music is consistently presented as inextricable from other global cultures, influences and exchanges rather than distinct and self-contained The repetition of defined themes across the whole series should make this series particularly useful for the teaching of survey courses, potentially enabling one to both explore a theme in relation to a specific cultural moment, and also to explore cultural change and continuity. * Early Music *
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The first comprehensive history of western music from antiquity to today.
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity
Edited by Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVen
Introduction: Ancient Music, Then and Now, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen
1. Society: Culture, Cohesion, and Crisis, Lauren Curtis
2. Philosophies: Musical Knowing, Tom Phillips
3. Politics: Musical Symbols and Civic Rhythms, Sarah Olsen
4. Exchange: Music Between Species and Culture, Sean Gurd
5. Education: Myth, Ritual, and Socialization, Carolyn Laferrière
6. Popular Culture: At the Festival, Hanna Golab
7. Performance: Ghosts, Identity, Ontologies, Pauline LeVen
8. Technologies: From Minds to Machines, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages
Edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming
Introduction: Music Defined and Distributed in the Western Middle Ages,
Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming
1. Society: Practicing Music Under Ecclesiastical Dominance, Nils Holger
Petersen
2. Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony, Andrew
Hicks and Jonathan Morton
3. Politics: Courts, Conquests, and Crusades, Helen Deeming
4. Exchange: Liturgical Reform, Pilgrimage, and Saints Cults, Rebecca
Maloy
5. Education: Growing Up In Music, Susan Boynton and Anne Levitsky
6. Popular Culture: In Search of Lost Practices, Meghan Quinlan and
Joseph W. Mason
7. Performance: On Absent Sounds, Notes, and Words, Anna Zayaruznaya
8. Technologies: Instruments and Notation, David Catalunya
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
Edited by Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman
Introduction: Mobilizing Music, Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman
1. Society: Music, Musicians, and the Renaissance Social Order, Kirsten
Gibson
2. Philosophies: The Crisis of Musical Knowledge, Melinda Latour
3. Politics: Staging Power, Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard
4. Exchange: Conduits, Objects, and Earwitnesses, Evan A. MacCarthy
5. Education: Music Among the Challenges of Early Modernity, Daniele V.
Filippi
6. Popular Culture: Three Cases and Some Observations, Remi Chiu
7. Performance: Expression, Emotion, and Identity, Jeanice Brooks
8. Technologies: Music, Art, and Techne in the Renaissance, Richard
Freedman
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert
Introduction: Musicking in the Age of Enlightenment, David R.M. Irving and
Estelle Joubert
1. Society: Music and Community, Estelle Joubert
2. Philosophies: Making Sense of Vibration, Roger Mathew Grant
3. Politics: Music and the Law, Rebekah Ahrendt
4. Exchange: Musical Transactions Around the World, David R.M. Irving
5. Education: Forming Musical Identities, Stephen Rose
6. Popular Culture: Lets Use Scare Quotes, Elisabeth Le Guin
7. Performance: On and Off the Page, Geoffrey Burgess
8. Technologies: Musical Media of Enlightenment, Rebecca Cypess
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age
Edited by Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-Smith
Introduction: Toppling Romanticism, Naomi Waltham-Smith and Alexander
Rehding
1. Society: Unthinking Musical History, Benjamin Walton
2. Philosophy: The Rise of Materiality, Michael Gallope
3. Politics: The Unexceptional Politicking of Labor, Enjoyment, and
Obstruction, Naomi Waltham-Smith
4. Exchange: The Geopolitics of Ethnographic Recordings, Music, and
Sound, Ana M. Ochoa Gautier
5. Education: Discipline and Delight, Laura Tunbridge
6. Popular Culture: Whose Music? What People?, Adrian Daub
7. Performance: Making Music Manifest, Roger Moseley
8. Technology: Composing in Sounds, Alexander Rehding
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Edited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Introduction: The Stories We Hope to Share, William Cheng
1. Society: Global Trajectories and the Universal-Particular Paradox,
Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
2. Philosophy: Theosophy and Esoteric Musical Modernism, Anna Gawboy
3. Politics: Music, Nation States, and the Small World in the Long
Twentieth Century, Danielle Fosler-Lussier
4. Exchange: Modernist Approaches across Oceans and Borders, Marysol
Quevedo
5. Education: Childrens Music and Visions of Citizenship, Anicia
Timberlake
6. Popular Culture: Musical Performance as Cultural Activism, Ellie M.
Hisama
7. Performance: The Changing Norm of Musical Practice in Everyday Life,
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
8. Technology: Media, Myths, and Movements, Penny Brandt and Rob Deemer
Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University and author of Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003), Music and Monumentality (2009), and Beethovens Symphony no. 9 (2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online: Music.
David Irving is affiliated to ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Spain. He is author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (2010), and co-editor of Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World (2013).
