History as Fantasy in Music, Sound, Image and Media

ISBN-13: 9781032271866 / Twarda / 2024 / 274 str.

Opis

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. 

Spis treści

Introduction – James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Alexander Robinson, Adam Whittaker I. Using and Misusing Early Music 1. ‘Official’ (televisual) History, Music and the Reinforcement of Popular Imagination: the Case of David Starkey’s Monarchy - Alexander Robinson (Independent Scholar) 2. ‘So, is Musike to be considered, that the Minde may be preferred, before the eare’: Taking John Dee's approach to Damon Albarn's Dr Dee - Ralph Corrigan (Independent Scholar) 3. Music for Shakespeare and the Early Modern in the Silent Cinema - Kendra Leonard (The Silent Film Sound and Music Archive) 4. Early Music in the Early Game: Civilization VI’ - Jennifer Smith (University of Huddersfield) 5. Masked Orgies and Backwards Priests: Music and Ritual in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Daniel Trocmé-Latter (University of Cambridge) II. Early music, immersive media, and virtual histories 6. Audio-Visual Interaction in Virtual Worlds: Seeing Sound and Hearing Objects in Visual Cultures - James Cook (University of Edinburgh) 7. Half-real worlds? Representing musical pasts in virtual/augmented reality - Adam Whittaker (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) 8. Soundscapes of Virtuality: sound and immersion in historical environments - Stephen Tatlow (Royal Holloway University of London) III. Early music out of time and space 9. Haunted by the Past: Music and Folk Horror in Children of the Stones - Alexander Kolassa (The Open University) 10. Retro-sounding or Sounding Retro? Shovel Knight, Medievalism, and the Neo-retro - Dean Chalmers (University of Edinburgh) 11. Medievalism and the Construction of the Past in the Music of Final Fantasy - Dan Donnelly (Independent Scholar) 12. A Jolly Good Thirteenth Century Romp: Galavant as a Medievalist Musical Comedy for Television - William Everett (University of Missouri)

O autorze

James Cook is Lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh. Alexander Kolassa is Lecturer in Music at the Open University. Alexander Robinson earned his PhD at Paris-Sorbonne University. He has taught at King’s College London, the University of Cambridge, and University of Surrey. Adam Whittaker is Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University.