0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Humanities

Buy Now

Recomposing the Past - Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,774
Discovery Miles 47 740
Recomposing the Past - Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (Hardcover): James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Adam...

Recomposing the Past - Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (Hardcover)

James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Adam Whittaker

Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,774 Discovery Miles 47 740 | Repayment Terms: R447 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English 'dramatick opera'). This collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers: 'Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past', 'Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History', and 'Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New'. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its parts.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Ashgate Screen Music Series
Release date: February 2018
First published: 2017
Editors: James Cook • Alexander Kolassa • Adam Whittaker
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-28747-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Early music (up to c 1000 CE)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Early music (up to c 1000 CE)
Promotions
LSN: 1-138-28747-4
Barcode: 9781138287471

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Disciple - Walking With God
Rorisang Thandekiso, Nkhensani Manabe Paperback  (1)
R280 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630
100 Mandela Moments
Kate Sidley Paperback R260 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320
Safari Nation - A Social History Of The…
Jacob Dlamini Paperback R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
1 Recce: Volume 3 - Onsigbaarheid Is Ons…
Alexander Strachan Paperback R380 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560
Stellenbosch: Murder Town - Two Decades…
Julian Jansen Paperback R360 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370
Prisoner 913 - The Release Of Nelson…
Riaan de Villiers, Jan-Ad Stemmet Paperback R399 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740
Democracy Works - Re-Wiring Politics To…
Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, … Paperback R320 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900
A History Of South Africa - From The…
Fransjohan Pretorius Paperback R435 Discovery Miles 4 350
Killing Karoline - A Memoir
Sara-Jayne King Paperback  (1)
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins - The…
Hilton Judin Paperback R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650
Light Through The Bars - Understanding…
Babychan Arackathara Paperback R30 R28 Discovery Miles 280
The People's War - Reflections Of An ANC…
Charles Nqakula Paperback R325 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000

See more

Partners