A cultural history of Western music

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Volume 1. A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity / edited by Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVen: Introduction: Ancient music, then and now / Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVen -- Society: Culture cohesion, and crisis / Lauren Curtis -- Philosophies: Musical knowing / Tom Phillips -- Politics: Musical symbols and civic rhythms / Sarah Olsen -- Exchange: Music between species and culture / Sean A. Gurd -- Education: Myth, ritual, and socialization / Carolyn Laferrière -- Popular culture: At the festival / Hanna Golab -- Performance: Ghosts, identity, ontologies / Pauline LeVen -- Technologies: From minds to machines / Sean a. Gurd and Paulien LeVen --Volume 2. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages / edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming: Introduction: Musid defined and distributed in the Western middle ages / Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming -- Society: Practicing music under ecclesiastical dominance / Nils Holger Petersen -- Philosophies: Cosmos and politics, harmony and disharmony / Andrew Hicks and Jonathan Morton -- Politics: Courts, conquests, and crusades / Helen Deeming -- Exchange: Liturgical reform, pilgrimage, and Saints' cults / Rebecca Maloy -- Education: Growing up in music / Susan Boynton and Anne Levitsky -- Popular culture: In search of lost practices / Meghan Quinlan and Joseph W. Mason -- Performance: On absent sounds, notes, and words / Anna Zayaruznaya -- Technologies: Instruments and notation / David Catalunya --Volume 3. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance / edited by Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman: Introduction: Mobilizing music / Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman -- Society: Music and musicians in the Renaissance social order / Kirsten Gibson -- Philosophies: Skepticism and the crisis of musical knowledge / Melinda Latour -- Politics: Staging power / Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard -- Exchange: Conduits, objects and earwitnesses / Evan A. MacCarthy -- Education: Music among the callenges of early modernity / Daniele V. Filippi -- Popular culture: Three cases and some observations / Remi Chiu -- Performance: Expression, emotion, and identity / Jeanice Brooks -- Technologies: Music, art, and technē in the Renaissance / Richard Freedman --Volume 4. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment / edited by David R. M. Irving and Estelle Joubert: Introduction: Musicking in the age of Enlightenment / David R. M. Irving and Estelle Joubert -- Society: Music and community / Estelle Joubert -- Philosophies: Making sense of vibration / Roger Mathew Grant -- Politics: Music and the law / Rebekah Ahrendt -- Exchange: Musical transactions around the world / David R. M. Irving -- Education: Forming musical identities / Stephen Rose -- Popular culture: Let's use scare quotes / Elisabeth Le Guin -- Performance: On and off the page / Geoffrey Burgess -- Technologies: Musical media in Enlightenment / Rebecca Cypess --Volume 5. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age / edited by Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-Smith: Introduction: Toppling romanticism / Naomi Waltham-Smith and Alexander Rehding -- Society: Unthinking musical history / Benjamin Walton -- Philosophy: The rise of materiality / Michael Gallope -- Politics: The unexceptional politicking of labor, enjoyment, and obstruction / Naomi Waltham-Smith -- Exchange: The geopolitics of ethnographic recordings, music, and sound / Ana M. Ochoa Gautier -- Education: Discipline and delight / Laura Tunbridge -- Popular culture: Whose music? What people? / Adrian Daub -- Performance: Making music manifest / Roger Moseley -- Technologies: Composing in sounds / Alexander Rehding --Volume 6. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age / edited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-Lussier: Introduction: The stories we hope to share / William Cheng -- Society: Global trajectories and the universal-particular paradox / Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang -- Philosophies: Theosophy and esoteric musical modernism / Anna Gawboy -- Politics: Music, nation-states, and the "small world" in the long Twentieth Century / Danielle Fosler-Lussier -- Exchange: Modernist approaches across oceans and borders / Marysol Quevedo -- Education: Children's music and visions of citizenships / Anicia Chung Timberlake -- Popular culture: Musical performance as cultural activism / Ellie M. Hisama -- Performance: The changing norms of musical practice in everyday life / Stephanie Jensen-Moulton -- Technologies: Media, myths, and movements / Penny Brandt and Rob Deemer."Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. The Cultural History of Western Music presents the first study of music in all its forms - ritual, classical, popular and commercial - from antiquity to today. The work is divided into 6 volumes, with each volume covering the same topics, so readers can either study a period/volume or follow a topic across history. The volumes are: 1. A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity 2. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages 3. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance 4. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment 5. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age 6. A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age. The topics are identity, communities and society; changing philosophies and ideas about music; politics and power; musical exchange and knowledge transfer between the West and the non-West; musical education; popular culture and musical entertainment; the places, practices, and experiences of performance; and the development of music technologies and media. The page extent for the pack is approximately 1536 pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index"--