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Curating Contemporary Music Festivals: A New Perspective on Music's Mediation
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Abstract 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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
music; musicology; festival; theater
Classification
Other Fields of Humanities
Other Media
Free Keywords
Contemporary Classical Music; New Music; Neue Musik; Berliner Festspiele; Münchner Biennale Für Neues Musiktheater; Munich Biennale For New Music Theatre; Cultural Management; Music Management
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
323 p.
Series
Music and Sound Culture, 47
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839452431
ISBN
978-3-8394-5243-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0