Curating Contemporary Music Festivals: A New Perspective on Music's Mediation Contributor(s): Farnsworth, Brandon (Author) |
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ISBN: 3837652432 ISBN-13: 9783837652437 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - Music | Business Aspects - Music | History & Criticism - General - Business & Economics | Management - General |
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 350 pages |
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Publisher Description: Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of curators« 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. |