Revivals - movements that revitalize, resuscitate, or re-indigenize
traditions perceived as threatened or moribund into new temporal,
spatial, or cultural contexts - have been well-documented in
Western Europe and Euro-North America. Less documented are the
revival processes that have been occurring and recurring elsewhere
in the world. And particularly under-analyzed are the aftermaths of
revivals: the new infrastructures, musical styles, performance
practices, subcultural communities, and value systems that have
grown out of revival movements. The Oxford Handbook of Music
Revival helps us achieve a deeper understanding of the role and
development of traditional, folk, roots, world, classical, and
early music in modern-day postindustrial, postcolonial, and postwar
contexts. The book's thirty chapters present innovative theoretical
perspectives illustrated through new ethnographic case studies on
diverse music cultures around the world. Together these essays
reveal the potency of acts of revival, resurgence, restoration, and
renewal in shaping musical landscapes and transforming social
experience. The contributors present research from Euro-America,
Native America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe,
the former Soviet bloc, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. They
enrich the field by applying approaches and insights from across
the disciplines of ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, historical
musicology, folklore studies, anthropology, ethnology, sociology,
and cultural studies. The book makes a powerful argument for the
untapped potential of revival as a productive analytical tool in
contemporary, global contexts-one that is crucial for understanding
manifestations of musical heritage in postmodern, cosmopolitan
societies. With its detailed treatment of authenticity,
recontextualization, transmission, institutionalization,
globalization, and other key concerns, the collection makes a
significant impact far beyond the field of revival studies and is
crucial for understanding contemporary manifestations of folk,
traditional, and heritage music in today's postmodern cosmopolitan
societies.
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