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Curating Contemporary Music Festivals

Year: 2020

Type: book

Abstract: 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.

Source: transcript Verlag eBooks

DOI: 10.1515/9783839452431

Author: Brandon Farnsworth

Institutions: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Getty Research Institute, Zurich University of the Arts

Language: English

Topic: Musicology and Musical Analysis

Subfield: Music

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4211043017

FWCI: 2.056

Cites: 76

Cited by: 10

Related to: 10