Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

Bennett Zon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-02044-3 (ISBN)

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Uses music to explore the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain. Accessible and easy to navigate, the volume will appeal to musicologists and historians of science, as well as to scholars from other disciplines including anthropology, folklore studies, education, biography, historiography and theology.

This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the conceptual premise of modern debates in evolutionary musicology. Structured around the Great Chain of Being, chapters are organized by discipline in successively ascending order according to their object of study, from zoology and the study of animal music to theology and the music of God. Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture takes a non-Darwinian approach to the interpretation of Victorian scientific and musical interrelationships, debunking the idea that the arts had little influence on contemporary scientific ideas and, by probing the origins of musical interdisciplinarity, the volume shows how music helped ideas about evolution to evolve.

Bennett Zon is Professor of Music at the University of Durham, Director of Durham's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and Co-Director of the International Network for Music Theology. He is General Editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review and of the book series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. His own publications include The English Plainchant Revival (1999), Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology (2000) and Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2007).

Introduction; 1. Zoomusicology; 2. Ethnomusicology; 3. Folk musicology; 4. Music pedagogy; 5. Music biography; 6. Music history; 7. Music theology; Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	27 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 253 mm
Gewicht	910 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	1-107-02044-1 / 1107020441
ISBN-13	978-1-107-02044-3 / 9781107020443
Zustand	Neuware