Curating Contemporary Music Festivals A New Perspective on Music's Mediation

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Farnsworth, Brandon [auth]

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TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (326 p.)Content type:

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9783839452431
9783839452431

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Summary: Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of ï¿½curatorsï¿½ laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.

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Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of ï¿½curatorsï¿½ laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.