Music and History : Bridging the Disciplines

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Pub. Date: 2005-07-01
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Summary

This book begins with a simple question: Why haven't historians and musicologists been talking to one another?Historians frequently look to all aspects of human activity, including music, in order to better understand the past. Musicologists inquire into the social, cultural, and historical contexts of musical works and musical practices to develop theories about the meanings of compositions and the significance of musical creation. Both disciplines examine how people represent their experiences. This collection of original essays, the first of its kind, argues that the conversation between scholars in the two fields can become richer and more mutually informing.The volume features an eloquent personal essay by historian Lawrence W. Levine, whose work has inspired a whole generation of scholars working on African American music in American history. The first six essays address widely different aspects of musical culture and history ranging from women and popular song during the French Revolution to nineteenth-century music publishing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two additional essays by scholars outside of musicology and history represent a new kind of disciplinary bridging by using the methods of cultural studies to look at cross-dressing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera and blues responses to lynching in the New South. The last four essays offer models for collaborative, multidisciplinary research with a special emphasis on popular music.Jeffrey H. Jackson, Memphis, Tennessee, is assistant professor of history at Rhodes College. He is the author ofMaking Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. Stanley C. Pelkey, Portage, Michigan, is assistant professor of music at Western Michigan University. He is a member of the College Music Society, and his work has appeared in music-related periodicals.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
JEFFREY H. JACKSON AND STANLEY C. PELKEY
PART I: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
The Musical Odyssey of an American Historian
3(20)
LAWRENCE W. LEVINE
PART II: ATTEMPTS TO BRIDGE THE DISCIPLINES
"But a Musician"-The Importance of the Underdog in Musico-Historical Research
Music Professionalism in a Small Sixteenth-Century Oxford College
23(21)
HELEN MARSH JEFFRIES
Angels and Furies
Women and Popular Song during the French Revolution
44(17)
LAURA MASON
Music, Memory, and the People in Selected British Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
61(23)
STANLEY C. PELKEY
Music by the "Celebrated Mozart"
A Philadelphia Publishing Tradition, 1794-1861
84(15)
DOROTHY POTTER
Republican Jazz?
Symbolism, Arts Policy, and the New Right
99(16)
BURTON W. PERETTI
Progressive Ideals for the Opera Stage?
George W. Chadwick's
The Padrone and Frederick S. Converse's The Immigrants
115(28)
CHARLES FREEMAN
PART III: CRITIQUES OF MUSIC AND HISTORY
THE PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Fictions of Alien Identities
Cultural Cross-Dressing in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Opera
143(20)
SANDRA LYNE
Judge Harsh Blues
Lynching, Law, and Order in the New South
163(18)
MICHAEL A. ANTONUCCI
PART IV: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Henry Purcell and The Universal Journal
The Building of Musical Canon in the 17205
181(19)
WILLIAM WEBER AND DONALD BURROWS
Hearing History
"Dixie," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and Civil War Music in the History Classroom
200(20)
JAMES A. DAVIS
The Multitrack Model
Cultural History and the Interdisciplinary Study of Popular Music
220(36)
MICHAEL J. KRAMER
Response 256(6)
JEFFREY H. JACKSON AND STANLEY C. PELKEY
Contributors 262(3)
Index 265

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