Romantic Anatomies of Performance

According to James Davies, these practices, accidents, and medical woes share nothing less than a concern for defining musical bodies. Carolyn Abbate (2004) and Elisabeth Le Guin (2006) have trenchantly re-asserted the centrality of the body for musical experience. [...]they have shown how attention...

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Published in:Current Musicology 2014 (98), p.151-155
Main Author: Pierce, J. Mackenzie
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Body movements
Davies, James Q
History
Keyboards
Music
Musical Performance
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Musicology
Nonfiction
Pedagogy
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Summary:According to James Davies, these practices, accidents, and medical woes share nothing less than a concern for defining musical bodies. Carolyn Abbate (2004) and Elisabeth Le Guin (2006) have trenchantly re-asserted the centrality of the body for musical experience. [...]they have shown how attention to performance's materialities may generate musical knowledge of a type traditionally outside the purview of musicology.
ISSN:0011-3735
2640-883X