Tag Archives: Reception
Performing Arts in America 1875–1923
Performing Arts in America 1875–1923, a website of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of the beginning of the modern age, when a combination of technological advances and societal freedoms led the way to … Continue reading
Filed under 20th- and 21st-century music, Dance, Reception, Resources
Kumbaya: A song’s evolution
Having served as a beloved anthem during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, Kumbaya now serves as an easy punch line in jokes about naïve idealism. Various theories regarding its provenance have circulated, including a report that it was … Continue reading
Filed under Black studies, Curiosities, North America, Reception, World music
The first Mozart monument
Rovereto claims the distinction of being both the first stop in the series of trips that Mozart undertook in Italy—he arrived with his father on Christmas Eve in 1769—and the first city to erect a monument in Mozart’s honor. The … Continue reading
Filed under Classic era, Reception
Karaoke and class
Karaoke challenges the hegemony of the status quo by breaking down the received rules of cultural production and challenging binary notions of high vs. low art, live vs. recorded performance, and amateur vs. professional performers. In so doing, karaoke engenders … Continue reading
Filed under Mass media, Performance practice, Popular music, Reception
Ringtones redux
Cell phone ringtones have been the subject of scholarly investigation for at least a decade; approaches to them have ranged from the practical to the postmodern. The earliest academic study that we know of is “On the ringtones of cell … Continue reading
Filed under Curiosities, Popular music, Reception, Science
Francophone Music Criticism, 1789–1914
Launched by the Institute of Musical Research at the University of London in 2010, Francophone Music Criticism, 1789–1914 is a repository of digitized, searchable reviews relating to French music and ballet. Texts are grouped into collections devoted to particular works, events, … Continue reading
Filed under Mass media, Reception, Resources
Dancecult: Journal of electronic dance music culture
The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London launched Dancecult: Journal of electronic dance music culture (ISSN 1947-5403), a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, in 2009. The journal is a platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on the shifting terrain … Continue reading
Filed under Mass media, New periodicals, Popular music, Reception
Beethoven and Confucius
Beethoven has long been considered a cultural hero in the West, but to become such a figure in China his persona had to be made to fit into Chinese cultural categories. The Chinese transformation of Beethoven’s character—first into that of … Continue reading
Filed under Classic era, Curiosities, Reception
