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Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,272
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Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire (Hardcover): Sarah Kirby

Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire (Hardcover)

Sarah Kirby

Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000

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Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into debates about music's role in society. International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as a fundamental part of these events' sonic landscape, and integral to the visitor experience. This book explores music at international exhibitions held in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom during the 1880s. At these exhibitions, music was codified, ordered, and all-round 'exhibited' in manifold ways. Displays of physical instruments from the past and present were accompanied by performances intended to educate or to entertain, while music was heard at exhibitors' stands, in concert halls, and in the pleasure gardens that surrounded the exhibition buildings. Music was depicted as a symbol of human artistic achievement, or employed for commercial ends. At times it was presented in nationalist terms, at others as a marker of universalism. This book argues, by interrogating the multiple ways that music was used, experienced, and represented, that exhibitions can demonstrate in microcosm many of the broader musical traditions, purposes, arguments, and anxieties of the day. Its nine chapters focus on sociocultural themes, covering issues of race, class, public education, economics, and entertainment in the context of music, tracing these through the networks of communication that existed within the British Empire at the time.

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Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000
Release date: February 2022
First published: 2022
Authors: Sarah Kirby
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-1-78327-673-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
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LSN: 1-78327-673-8
Barcode: 9781783276738

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