Global perspectives on orchestras: collective creativity and social agency 1st Edition Tina K. Ramnarine (Editor)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199352224
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199352227
• Author(s): Tina K. Ramnarine

Offering innovative approaches to thinking about orchestras, Global Perspectives on Orchestras: Collective Creativity and Social Agency adopts ethnographic, historical and comparative perspectives on a variety of traditions, including symphony, Caribbean steel, Indonesian gamelan, Indian film and Vietnamese court examples. The volume presents compelling analyses of orchestras in their socio-historical, economic, intercultural and postcolonial contexts, while emphasizing the global and historical connections between musical traditions.

By drawing on new ethnographic and historical data, the essays describe orchestral creative processes and the politics shaping performance practices. Each essay considers how musicians work together in ensembles, focusing on issues such as training, rehearsal, creative choices, compositional processes, and organizational infrastructures. Testimonies of orchestral musicians highlight practitioners’ views into the diverse world of orchestras. As a whole, the volume discusses the creative roles of performers, arrangers, composers and arts agencies, as well as the social environments supporting musical collaborations.

Table contents:

Introduction: global perspectives on orchestras
Part 1 Community and capital in orchestral contexts
1 Cultural demand and supply in an imperial trading centre: developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the mid-nineteenth century
2 Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra
3 Musical ambition and community-building in Trinidad and Tobago’s steel orchestras
4 Steel orchestras and tassa bands: multiculturalism, collective creativity, and debating co-national instruments in Trinidad and Tobago
5 Pioneering the orchestra-owned label: LSO Live in an industry in crisis
Part 2 Intercultural orchestral collaborations
6 Voices on the wind: eddies of possibility for Australia’s orchestral future
7 The women’s international gamelan group at the Pondok Pekak: intercultural collective music-making and performance in Bali, Indonesia
8 Gamelanesque effects: musical impressions of Java and Bali in interwar America
9 ‘Every town our home town’: how a Finnish symphony orchestra collaborates with South Indian Carnatic musicians
10 Orchestra and song: musical narratives in Tamil films
11 The Hindi film orchestra: cinema, sounds and meanings
12 Orchestras and musical intersections with regimental bands, blackface minstrel troupes, and jazz in India, 1830s–1940s
Part 3 Decolonizing and postcolonial orchestral contexts
13 Tiki Taane’s With Strings Attached: Alive & Orchestrated and postcolonial identity politics in New Zealand
14 State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore
15 The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain: examining the orchestra in its economic and institutional environments
16 Orchestrating the nation: court orchestras, nationalism and agency in Vietnam
17 Orchestral connections in the cultures of decolonization: reflections on British, Caribbean and Indian contexts
Notes
Index

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