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Musical Biography - Towards New Paradigms (Paperback)
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Musical Biography - Towards New Paradigms (Paperback)
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Musical biography has rarely been an object of theoretical and
methodological reflection. Our present-day perception of the lives
of prominent composers and performers of the past has been largely
formed by cultural and political assumptions of nineteenth-century
biographers and their twentieth-century followers. While older
biographies are being scrutinized for veracity and 'updated' with
new evidence, their historiographical premisses and narrative
techniques remain largely unchallenged. The epistemological
upheavals in the humanities since the 1960s have generated a body
of theoretical thought that has undermined many of the assumptions
of traditional biography. Consequently, many of these assumptions
have lost their hold as viable underpinnings for present-day
scholarly biography. For example, the accumulation of facts is no
longer believed to bring us closer to an understanding of the
subject; nor are the traditional views of the unified self and the
self as a foundational idea taken for granted. This volume brings
together musicologists and historians who explore, through
individual case studies, the rich potential of these new theories
for writing musical lives. The authors of this volume examine how
the insights provided by these theories illuminate our critical
reassessment of older biographies - and the interpretations of
musical works these biographies were used to construe - and help
forge new approaches to musical biography. The authors also explore
the functions musical biographies served in different historical
contexts, the relevance of biography for musical criticism, the
reliability of archival evidence, the ethics of biography, the
demands placed on biography by feminist and gender history, and the
new possibilities offered by cinema. 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 dem
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