Global Perspectives on Orchestras Collective Creativity and Social Agency |
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Editor:
| Ramnarine, Tina K. |
Series title: | Studies in Musical Perf As Creative Prac Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-935222-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2018 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $160.00 |
Book Description:
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Global Perspectives on Orchestras offers innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras. It adopts ethnographic and comparative perspectives on symphony, Caribbean steel, Indian film orchestras and Indonesian gamelan ensembles. By considering the orchestra in diverse historical, intercultural and postcolonial contexts, the volume generates enhanced appreciation of this creative, political and social practice.
Global Perspectives on Orchestras offers innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras. It adopts ethnographic and comparative perspectives on symphony, Caribbean steel, Indian film orchestras and Indonesian gamelan ensembles. By considering the orchestra in diverse historical, intercultural and postcolonial contexts, the volume generates enhanced appreciation of this creative, political and social practice.