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Music and Death - Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life (Hardcover)
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Music and Death - Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life (Hardcover)
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Music gives specific meanings to our lives, but also to how we
experience death; it forms a central part of death rituals,
consoles survivors, and celebrates the deceased. Music & Death
investigates different musical engagements with death. Its eleven
essays examine a broad range of genres, styles and periods of
Western music from the Middle Ages until the present day. This
volume brings a variety of methodological approaches to bear on a
broad, but non-exhaustive, range of music. These include musical
rituals and intercessions on behalf of the departed. Chapters also
focus on musicians' reactions to death, their ways of engaging with
grief, anger and acceptance, and the public's reaction to the death
of musicians. The genres covered include requiem settings, operas
and ballets, arts songs, songs by Leonard Cohen and the B-52s, and
instrumental music. There are also broader reflections regarding
the psychological links between creative musical practice and the
overcoming of grief, music's central role in shaping a specific
lifestyle (of psychobillies) and the supposed universalism of
Western art music (as exemplified by Brahms). The volume adds many
new facets to the area of death studies, highlighting different
aspects of "musical thanatology". It will appeal to those
interested in the intersections between western music and theology,
as well as scholars of anthropology and cultural studies.
CONTRIBUTORS: Matt BaileyShea, Alexandra Buckle, Peter Edwards,
Richard Elliott, Nicole Grimes, Mieko Kanno, Kimberly Kattari,
Wolfgang Marx, Fred E. Maus, Jillian C. Rogers, UtaSailer and
Miriam Wendling.
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Imprint: |
Boydell & Brewer
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Editors: |
Wolfgang Marx
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-83765-064-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-83765-064-0 |
Barcode: |
9781837650644 |
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