Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance by Nicholas Cook,Richard Pettengill

By Nicholas Cook,Richard Pettengill

The overriding objective of this groundbreaking volume—whether the topic is vocal ornamentation in 19th-century opera or the collective improvisation of the thankful Dead—is to offer new popularity to functionality because the middle of musical tradition. the gathering brings jointly well known students from functionality reviews and musicology (including Philip Auslander, David Borgo, Daphne Brooks, Nicholas prepare dinner, Maria Delgado, Susan quick, Dana Gooley, Philip Gossett, Jason King, Elisabeth Le Guin, Aida Mbowa, Ingrid Monson, Roger Moseley, Richard Pettengill, Joseph Roach, and Margaret Savilonis), with the motive of sparking a efficient new discussion on tune as functionality. Taking It to the Bridge is at the one hand a sequence of in-depth reports of a wide variety of functionality artists and genres, and at the different a contribution to ongoing methodological advancements in the learn of song, with the objective of bridging the techniques of musicology and function reviews, to allow an in depth, interpretive listening that mixes the easiest of every. while, by means of juxtaposing musical genres that diversity from pop and soul to the classics, and from international track to video games and web-mediated performances, Taking It to the Bridge presents a list of contrasted ways to the examine of functionality and contributes to its constructing centrality inside tune studies.

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