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Title

Taking it to the bridge : music as performance / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill, editors.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cook, Nicholas, 1950-
• Pettengill, Richard

Description

xvi, 381 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Taking It to the Bridge places renowned scholars from performance studies and musicology in conversation for the first time to spark a productive new dialogue on music as performance. The overriding aim of this groundbreaking volume-whether the subject is vocal ornamentation in nineteenth-century opera or the collective improvisation of the Grateful Dead-is to give new recognition to performance as the core of musical culture. The book is on the one hand a series of in-depth studies of a broad range of performance artists and genres, and on the other a contribution to ongoing methodological developments within the study of music, with the goal of bridging the approaches of musicology and performance studies to enable a close, interpretive listening that combines the best of each. At the same time, by juxtaposing musical genres that range from pop and soul to the classics, and from world music to games and web-mediated performances, Taking It to the Bridge provides an inventory of contrasted approaches to the study of performance and contributes to its developing centrality within music studies. Book jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

Music > Performance

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Editors' preface / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill -- A backward-looking foreword / Elisabeth Le Guin -- Introduction / Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill -- U2 3D : concert films and/as live performance / Susan Fast -- Performing collective improvisation : the Grateful Dead's "Dark star" / Richard Pettengill -- Jazz improvisation as a social arrangement / Philip Auslander -- Bridging the unbridgeable? Empirical musicology and interdisciplinary performance studies / Nicholas Cook -- The written and the sung : ornamenting Il barbiere di Siviglia / Philip Gossett -- Enacting the revolution : Thalberg in 1848 / Dana Gooley -- Cutting loose : burying "The first man of jazz" / Joseph Roach -- Abbey Lincoln's screaming singing and the sonic liberatory potential thereafter / Aida Mbowa -- Got to get over the hump : the politics of glam in the work of Labelle and Parliament / Margaret F. Savilonis -- "Bring the pain" : post-Soul memory, neo-Soul affect, and Lauryn Hill in the Black public sphere / Daphne A. Brooks -- Don't stop 'til you get enough : presence, spectacle, and good feeling in Michael Jackson's This is it / Jason King -- Carles Santos : "music in the theatre" / Maria M. Delgado -- Tchekisse : Neba Solo's Senufo counterpoint in action / Ingrid Monson -- Playing games with music (and vice versa) : ludomusicological perspectives on guitar hero and rock band / Roger Moseley -- Beyond performance : transmusicking in cyberspace / David Borgo -- Afterword : Music as performance : the disciplinary dilemma revisited / Philip Auslander.

ISBN

• 9780472071777 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0472071777 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780472051779 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0472051776 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780472029303 (e-book)
• 0472029304 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2013006635

OCLC

• 820123689
• SCSB-10338190

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library