Song Beyond the Nation : Translation, Transnationalism, Performance Hardback
Edited by Philip Ross (Professor of Russian Literature and Music, Professor of Russian Literature and Bullock, Laura (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Oxford) Tunbridge
Part of the Proceedings of the British Academy series
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Within classical music, much writing on the Western song tradition since 1800 has assumed a direct link between musical cultures and national literatures, and song has typically been interpreted as one of the means by which constructions of nationalism and nationhood have been pursued in the cultural sphere.
Yet song can also be a mobile and cosmopolitan genre and form of cultural practice, able - through performance, publication, and translation - to cross boundaries between cultures and languages.
This volume brings together musicologists, literary scholars, linguists, and cultural historians to examine the ways in which song creation, practice, and interpretation has been defined by, and in turn defines, conceptions of nationalism and the transnational.
It focuses on four key poets - the Persian Hafiz, German Heine, American Whitman, and French Verlaine - and examines how their poems have been 'translated' into song, and how music can challenge the seemingly organic relationship between language and nation.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, 51 music examples, 5 figures, 7 tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:20/05/2021
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- ISBN:9780197267196
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:352 pages, 51 music examples, 5 figures, 7 tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:20/05/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780197267196
