Bücher der Reihe Critical and Cultural Musicology

Discussing diverse works, leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.

This volume discusses the cultural and scientific ways that hearing music works on the body, how it works as a means of healing and how music is now heard by large social groups through modern technological advances.

A collection of musical case studies from: Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America and Europe and more, that engage with broader interdisciplinary issues about race, gender, politics, nationalism and music. They examine such issues as the blues aesthetic, the globalization of jazz and the role of militarism in Haitian vodou music.

This collection of essays by musicologists and art historians explores the reciprocal influences between music and painting during the nineteenth century, a critical period of gestation when instrumental music was identified as the paradigmatic expressive art and theoretically aligned with painting in the formulation utpictura musica (as with music, so with painting). Under music's influence, painting approached the threshold of abstraction; concurrently many composers cultivated pictorial effects in their music. Individual essays address such themes as visualization in music, the literary vs. pictorial basis of the symphonic poem, musical pictorialism in painting and lithography, and the influence of Wagner on the visual arts. In these and other ways, both composers and painters actively participated in interarts discourses in seeking to redefine the very identity and aims of their art. Also includes 17 musical examples.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz, wassoulou music, and popular and traditional musics of the Caribbean and Africa, framed with attention to the reciprocal relationships of the local and the global.