The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music [Paperback]

As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines.The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Musiccultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art.The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Musicfosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself.

Introduction. Defining the New Cultural History of Music: Its Origins, Current Directions and Methodologies
Jane F. Fulcher

PART I: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ITS EXPRESSION: CONSTRUCTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND EXCHANGES
Constructions or Representations of the Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Race

1. A Woman's Place: Antiphons and Responsories for Virgin Martyrs in the Office
James Borders
2. Music, Violence, and the Stakes of Listening
Richard Leppert
3. Music and Pain
Andreas Dorschel

Subjectivity and the Shaping of the Self in Society
4. The Road into the Open : from Narrative Closure to the Endless Performance of Subjectivity in Mahler and Freud at the Turn of the Century
John Toews
5. Understanding Schoenberg as Christ
Julie Brown
6. The Strange Landscape of Middles
Michael Beckermann

Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Trans-Nationalism
7. The Genre of National Opera in European Comparative Perspective
Philipp Ther
8. Cosmopolitan, National, and Regional Identities in European Muslc