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Title: Music and Death
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Description: 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.
Author: Wolfgang Marx
Contributor: Wolfgang Marx (Edited by), Peter Edwards (Contributions by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
EAN: 9781837650644
Format: Hardback
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
ISBN: 9781837650644
ISBN-10: 1837650640
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Subtitle: Funeral Music, Memory and Re-Evaluating Life
Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture
Release Date: 13/06/2023
Release Year: 2023

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