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Music: And So to the Movies
Author(s) -
BURDEN MICHAEL
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00442.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , jungle , musical , music history , visual arts , subject (documents) , popular music , movie theater , white (mutation) , aesthetics , art , music industry , literature , history , sociology , music education , political science , computer science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , library science , gene
The study of music history has, in the last decades, seen a move away from the music of the canon, and of dead, white, male, ‘great’ composers, towards a closer engagement with performance and a clearer understanding of the contexts and institutions that produced music of all types. This article chooses five ways into the jungle of modern musical scholarship – monumental supporting projects; historical overviews; an independent voice for eighteenth‐century music research; performance practice; and music, celebrity and the cinema – and considers how they have shaped, and continue to shape, the subject as it is today.