Sound Heritage: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses
Jeanice Brooks, "Sound Heritage: Making Music Matter in Historic Houses "
English | ISBN: 0367237164 | 2021 | 364 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 49 MB
English | ISBN: 0367237164 | 2021 | 364 pages | EPUB, PDF | 15 MB + 49 MB
Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses.
The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include:
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