Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen by Cook, James

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367593155)

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Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen by Cook, James

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

$54.95
Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen by Cook, James

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

$54.95
Format: Paperback
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Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and otherwise, is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings, Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones, The Borgias), videogame (Dragon Warrior, Gauntlet), and opera (Written on Skin, Taverner, English 'dramatick opera'). This collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers: 'Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past', 'Music, Space, and Place: Geography as History', and 'Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New'. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that this collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its parts.

Author: James Cook
ISBN-10: 0367593157
ISBN-13: 9780367593155
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d

By James Cook
By James Cook
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James Cook is a lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh. He works on the long fifteenth century as well as early music in the popular media of film, television, and videogame.

Alexander Kolassa is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research. He is a composer and academic interested in contemporary music and modernism, medievalism, and new media.

Adam Whittaker is a postdoctoral researcher at Birmingham City University. He works on medieval and Renaissance music theory, alongside interests in early music in popular media.

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