Format:
1 Online-Ressource (326 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783839452431
Series Statement:
Music and Sound Culture Volume 47
Uniform Title:
Curating festivals for contemporary music
Content:
Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Image and Figure Rights -- 1.1 Establishing the Field -- 1.2 The State of the Art -- 1.3 Scope and Overview -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Anatomy of Festivals and Biennales -- 2.3 Curating Biennales -- 2.4 Curatorial Discourse -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Reading Shannon Jackson -- 3.3 Curating Dance / Dance Curating -- 3.4 Curating Theatre / Theatre Curating -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Hans Werner Henze -- 4.3 Music Theatre? -- 4.4 Peter Ruzicka -- 4.5 Daniel Ott and Manos Tsangaris (DOMTS) -- 4.6 The 2016 and 2018 Biennale Editions -- 4.7 Compositional and Curatorial Practices -- 4.8 The Munich Biennale in Numbers. -- 4.9 Conclusion -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A Brief Prehistory to the Maerzmusik Festival -- 5.3 Maerzmusik 2002-2014 -- 5.4 Berno Odo Polzer -- 5.5 2017 Opening Concert: Julius Eastman -- 5.6 Storytelling for Earthly Survival -- 5.7 Curating and the Maerzmusik Festival -- 5.8 Decolonizing Time -- 5.9 Conclusion/Coda/Konzertemacher -- 6. Conclusion/Curating Music -- Bibliography -- Appendix: List of Productions at the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre from 1988-2018
Note:
This work is an adaptation of the dissertation “Curating Festivals for Contemporary Music”. - Titelrückseite
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Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (BY-NC-ND)
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Dissertation Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden 2019
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837652437
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Farnsworth, Brandon, 1991 - Curating contemporary music festivals Bielefeld : transcript, 2020 ISBN 9783837652437
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3837652432
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Musikfestspiel
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Kulturmanagement
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.14361/9783839452431
Author information:
Farnsworth, Brandon 1991-
