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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 ¿en
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