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How can broadcasting help us understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today? To answer this question, Music and the Broadcast Experience brings together fourteen leading music and media scholars, who explore how music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.
About the author
CB: Associate Professor, Communication Studies and Music, McMaster University. Author of Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (OUP 2011).JD: Associate Professor and Supervisor of Graduate Studies, School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music, Carleton University. Editor or co-editor oif books about Wagner (Pendragon), Liszt (Pendragon), and Peter Cornelius (Schott), and guest editor of special issues of the 19th Century Music Review and Canadian University Music Review. Advisory Board member for the Grove Dictionary of American Music.ST: Composer, arranger, theatre director, musical director, and academic, specializing in Canadian musical theatre. Orchestrator and composer for film and TV; resident musical director of The Thousand Islands Playhouse. He has taught music history, theory, ear training, performance and composition at McMaster Univ ersity in Hamilton, Ontario, where he organized the Over the Waves international conference on music in/and broadcastin
Summary
How can broadcasting help us understanding music and its cultural role, both historically and today? To answer this question, Music and the Broadcast Experience brings together fourteen leading music and media scholars, who explore how music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.
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This is a collection of 14 essays exploring the relationship between music and broadcasting by academics from the world of music and media studies. The articles are very eclectic, covering such disparate areas as opera, sound effects, jazz, Yoko Ono and music in prisons.
