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Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire (Hardcover)
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Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire (Hardcover)
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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