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Musical biography : towards new paradigms / edited by Jolanta T. Pekacz.

Other author/creatorPekacz, Jolanta T., 1956- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, ©2006.
Descriptionxi, 232 pages : illustrations ; c 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents "Renovating" Bach and Handel: new musical biographies in the German Democratic Republic / Toby Thacker -- The nation's property: Chopin's biography as a cultural discourse / Jolanta T. Pekacz -- Maurice Ravel: private life, public works / Steven Huebner -- Lingering legends: Liszt after Walker / Michael Saffle -- Fanny in Italy: the female composer as travel writer / Marian Wilson Kimber -- This is (y)our life: (re-)writing women's autobiographies in music in nineteenth-century Germany / James Deaville -- Unremarkable musical lives: autobiograhical narratives, music, and the shaping of the self / David Gramit -- A life on film: Renato Castellani's The life of Verdi / John C. Tibbetts.
Abstract The contributors to this volume challenge the view that biography has little importance for music history, analysis, and criticism. Collectively, they reassert biography's centrality and relevance, and demonstrate biography's potential to speak not only to the crucial questions that music analysis and criticism raise, but also to more general epistemological questions about the nature of music history itself.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
LCCN 2005017374
ISBN0754651517 (alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML3916 .M882 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold