Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization: New Perspectives on Music History in the 20th and 21st Century

Christian Utz

book: Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization

New Perspectives on Music History in the 20th and 21st Century

Christian Utz
Translated by: Laurence Sinclair Willis
Funded by: Austrian Science Fund - FWF (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung)

Volume 43 in the series Musik und Klangkultur

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450956

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About this book

Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st century. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled histories, and reflexive globalization. The relationship between music and broader changes in society forms the central focus and is treated as a pivotal music-historical dynamic.

Author / Editor information

Christian Utz is Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and an associate professor at the University of Vienna. He directed the FWF-funded research projects »A Context-Sensitive Theory of Post-tonal Sound Organization« (2012-2014) and »Performing, Experiencing and Theorizing Augmented Listening« (2017-2020).

Reviews

»Christian Utz' Monographie stellt auch acht Jahre nach der deutschen Erstausgabe eine beeindruckende Pionierleistung dar, an der alle kommenden Studien zur globalen Musikgeschichte gemessen werden müssen.«
Stefan Menzel, Musiktheorie, 38/2 (2023)

Besprochen in:
Circuit, 32/1 (2022), Robert Hasegawa

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface Open Access Download PDF	9
Preface to the Revised and Expanded English Edition Open Access Download PDF	11
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	15
List of Examples, Figures, and Tables Open Access Download PDF	17
I. Introduction: Art Music, Identity, and Reflexive Globalization
1. Art Music in a Global Context Open Access Download PDF	25
2. Identity Criticism and Reflexive Globalization Open Access Download PDF	29
3. Discourses of Intercultural Composition Open Access Download PDF	38
II. Toward an Entangled History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Global Context
1. Preliminaries of an Intercultural Music Historiography Open Access Download PDF	47
2. Internationalism and Universalism: Repercussions of Political and Cultural History Open Access Download PDF	63
3. The Ambivalence of the Local in Twentieth-Century Music Open Access Download PDF	75
4. Modernist Reception of Japanese and Indian Traditional Music between 1910 and 1945: Delage, Cowell, Mitsukuri, and Hayasaka Open Access Download PDF	82
5. Re-Reading the Impact of the “Cultural Cold War” on Music History: Cowell, Mayuzumi, Berio Open Access Download PDF	114
6. Categories of Intercultural Reception in Western Composition Open Access Download PDF	135
III. Studies on the History and Analysis of New East Asian Music
1. The Reception of Western Modernism in the Music of China and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century Open Access Download PDF	155
2. Triggering Musical Modernism in China: The Work of Wolfgang Fraenkel in Shanghai Exile Open Access Download PDF	167
3. The Travels of a Jasmine Flower: A Chinese Folk Song, Its Prehistory, and Tan Dun’s Symphony 1997 Open Access Download PDF	194
4. Probing the Compositional Relevance of Cultural Difference: Key Tendencies of East Asian New Music Since the 1950s Open Access Download PDF	206
5. Intercultural Narrativity in East Asian Art Music since the 1990s Open Access Download PDF	235
6. The Impact of Traditional Music on Composition in Taiwan since the Postwar Period Open Access Download PDF	263
IV. The shō Context
1. Transformation and Myth Criticism in Works for the Japanese Mouth Organ Open Access Download PDF	289
2. The shō as a Medium of Alterity and Self-Referentiality in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music Open Access Download PDF	308
V. New Music and Beyond: Music-Historical and Cultural Entanglements
1. The Rediscovery of Presence: Intercultural Passages Through Vocal Spaces Between Speech and Song Open Access Download PDF	337
2. Space-Time Movements in György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto: Polymeter and Conflicting Meter in Historical and Intercultural Perspective Open Access Download PDF	363
3. Intercultural Tension in Music by Chaya Czernowin and Isabel Mundry: Variations on Identity and Musical Meaning Open Access Download PDF	385
VI. Reflections on My Own Composing as a Search for Traces in the In-Between
1. Layered Fabric, Intertextuality, and Cultural Context: From Striated to Open Space Open Access Download PDF	393
2. Stratification and Analysis Open Access Download PDF	402
3. Intercultural and Multilingual Trajectories of the Human Voice Open Access Download PDF	411
4. Composition as Polyphony: Creating, Performing, and Perceiving Music Non-Hierarchically Open Access Download PDF	428
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	441
Appendix Open Access Download PDF	491
Index Open Access Download PDF	497

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 528
Keywords: 20th Century; Globalization; Transnationalism; Entangled Histories; Asia; China; Japan; Korea; Music; Musicology; Interculturalism; Cultural Studies; Cultural History

eBook

Published: March 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839450956