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Performing Antiquity tells the captivating story of the most intriguing Belle Époque personalities - archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists - and the dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism.
List of contents
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Music Examples
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Musicology, Archaeology, Performance: Models and Methods
- Chapter 2. Gabriel Fauré and Théodore Reinach: Hidden Pianos and L'Hymne à Apollon
- Chapter 3. Performing Sappho's Fractured Archive, or Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and Works of Natalie Clifford Barney
- Chapter 4. Performing Scholarship for the Paris Opéra: Maurice Emmanuel's Salamine (1929)
- Chapter 5. "To Give Greece Back to the Greeks:" Archeology, Ethnography and Eva Palmer Sikelianos' Prometheus Bound
- Chapter 6. Scholars and Their Objects of Study; or, Loving Your Subject
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Dr. Samuel N. Dorf is a musicologist and dance historian. His research areas include intersections between musicology and dance studies and the history of technology, studies of antiquity, reception studies, queer studies, and the history of performance practice. He teaches at the University of Dayton.
Summary
Performing Antiquity tells the captivating story of the most intriguing Belle Époque personalities - archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists - and the dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism.
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Like a sudden aerolith alighting in some historian's surprised garden, Dorf's glowing book gives us an alternative history of turn-of-the-century Europe filled with earnest lesbians and archaeologists, hidden pianos in neo-Delian villas, visionary dancers, and an exuberant arc of musical and artistic fantasy about ancient Greece that returns us to the wonder of a period a hundred years behind us, yet which still invites us to ask who we are and what we love.
