Harpocrates at Work: How the God of Silence Protected Eighteenth-Century French Iconoclasts
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship, edited by Patricia Hall. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. Weblink: http://oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: This article examines music censorship in the Old Regime France by focusing on the politics of theater. More specifically, it analyzes the politics of silence in eighteenth-century pantomime, a type […]
The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more […]
Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead by Brad Osborn
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Popular Music 36, no. 3 (2017): 446-48. Weblink: https://cambridge.org
And You, Dear Eagle, Have You Seen My Cows? Reflections of Moravian Song in North American Indigenous Spaces
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: Reflections, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 119-31. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2017. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: According to mythologist Martin Shaw, folk tales are not the “penned agenda of one brainrattled individual” who employs “the most succulent portions of the human imagination” to author […]
‘Mit singen und klingen’: Urban Processional Culture and the Soundscapes of Post-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: “‘Mit singen und klingen’: Urban Processional Culture and the Soundscapes of Post-Reformation Germany”. In Listening to Early Modern Catholicism, ed. Daniele V. Filippi and Michael Noone, 187-203. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Weblink: https://brill.com
Proper Playing Areas
Author: Graham, Aaron Publication details: The Instrumentalist, September 2017 Link | PDF
Lectiones sacrae: Musik um 1600 in Würzburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Julius Echter, Patron der Künste. Konturen eines Fürsten und Bischofs der Renaissance, edited by Damian Dombrowski, Markus Josef Maier, and Fabian Müller, 319-28. Translated by Damian Dombrowski. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017. Weblink: https://www.amazon.com
Luther, Martin
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Oxford Bibliographies in Music, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com. Published 27 July 2017 Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0220
The Disenchanted Flute? Music, Max Weber, and Early Modern Science
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: Presented at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, 28 May 2017 Weblink: http://www.yorku.ca Abstract: With Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (1999), among other writings, the musicologist Daniel K. L. Chua proposed a theory of “rationalization” to account for key developments […]
Between Aristotle and Lucretius: Discourses of Nature and Rousseau’s Discours sur l’inégalité
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 1 (2017): 1-33. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: In the Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau presents himself as declaiming in “the Lyceum of Athens” but in the presence of Plato and Xenocrates. Why should Rousseau’s arguments be heard in such precincts, and why, moreover, is Aristotle missing from […]