Vocal music and contemporary identities : unlimited voices in East Asia and the West / / edited by Christian Utz and Frederick Lau

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 782
• Soggetto topico: Vocal music - 20th century - History and criticism; Vocal music - 21st century - History and criticism; Voice; Group identity
• Altri autori: LauFrederick UtzChristian
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : voice, identities, and reflexive globalization in contemporary music practices / Christian Utz and Frederick Lau -- Presence and ethicity of the voice / Dieter Mersch -- The rediscovery of presence : intercultural passages through vocal spaces between speech and song / Christian Utz -- Imagining the other's voice : on composing across vocal traditions / Sandeep Bhagwati -- Voice, culture, and ethnicity in contemporary Chinese compositions / Frederick Lau -- Narrative, voice, and reality in the operas by Hosokawa Toshio and Mochizuki Misato / Fuyuko Fukunaka -- Reconsidering traditional vocal practices in contemporary Korean music / Heekyung Lee -- Escaped from paradise? : construction of identity and elements of ritual in vocal works by Helmut Lachenmann and Giacinto Scelsi / Jörn Peter Hiekel -- The notation and use of the voice in non-semantic contexts : phonetic organization in the vocal music of Dieter Schnebel, Brian Ferneyhough, and Georges Aperghis / Erin Gee -- A "digital opera" at the boundaries of transnationalism : human and synthesized voices in Zuni Icosahedron's The memory palace of Matteo Ricci / Samson Young -- "Voices of the mainstream" : Red songs and revolutionary identities in the People's Republic of China / Andreas Steen -- Asagi's voice : learning how to desire with Japanese visual-kei / Oliver Seibt -- Voicing body, voicing Seoul : vocalization, body, and ethnicity in Korean popular music / Michael Fuhr -- Afterword : giving voice to difference / Nicholas Cook.
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique, analysi
• Titolo autorizzato: Vocal music and contemporary identities
• ISBN: 1-283-94205-4; 0-203-07850-0; 1-136-15522-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827683703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Research in Music