Music and history : bridging the disciplines / edited by Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey.
| Other author | Jackson, Jeffrey H., 1971- editor. |
| Other author | Pelkey, Stanley C., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2005. |
| Description | xvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Musical odyssey of an American historian / Lawrence W. Levine -- "But a musician": the importance of the underdog in musico-historical research: music professionalism in a small sixteenth-century Oxford college / Helen Marsh Jeffries -- Angels and furies: women and popular song during the French Revolution / Laura Mason -- Music, memory, and the people in selected British periodicals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Stanley C. Pelkey -- Music by the "celebrated Mozart": a Philadelphia publishing tradition, 1794-1861 / Dorothy Potter -- Republican jazz? Symbolism, arts policy, and the New Right / Burton W. Peretti -- Progressive ideals for the opera stage? / George W. Chadwicks -- Padrone and Frederick S. Converse's The Immigrants / Charles Freeman -- Fictions of alien identities: cultural cross-dressing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera / Sandra Lyne -- Judge Harsh blues: lynching, law, and order in the new south / Michael A. Antonucci -- Henry Purcell and the Universal Journal: the building of musical canon in the 1720's / William Weber and Donald Burrows -- "Dixie," "Battle hymn of the republic," and Civil War music in the history classroom / James A. Davis -- Multitrack model: cultural history and the interdisciplinary study of popular music / Michael J. Kramer -- Response / Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey. |
| Abstract | This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another? Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts of musical works and musical practices to develop theories about the meanings of compositions and the significance of musical creation. Both disciplines examine how people represent their experiences. This collection of original essays, the first of its kind, argues that the conversation between scholars in the two fields can become richer and more mutually informing. The volume features an eloquent personal essay by historian Lawrence W. Levine, whose work has inspired a whole generation of scholars working on African American music in American history. The first six essays address widely different aspects of musical culture and history ranging from women and popular song during the French Revolution to nineteenth-century music publishing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two additional essays by scholars outside of musicology and history represent a new kind of disciplinary bridging by using the methods of cultural studies to look at cross-dressing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera and blues responses to lynching in the New South. The last four essays offer models for collaborative, multidisciplinary research with a special emphasis on popular music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004021647 |
| ISBN | 1578067626 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3916 .M86 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |