1st Edition
Recorded Music in Creative Practices Mediation, Performance, Education
List of figures
List of tables
List of music examples
Note for the reader about e-resources
List of online video examples
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: New approaches to integrating the study and practice of recording in higher music education
Georgia Volioti
PART I – Recordings as agents of mediation
1. History, imitation, and freedom in classical performers’ uses of recordings
Mary Hunter
2. Reinterpreting the history of the tenor voice: An autoethnographic study using early recordings
Barbara Gentili
3. The enchantment of phonography: Materiality and mediation in early twentieth-century children’s recordings
Daniele Palma
4. Recorded performance reviewed: Discovering classical music recordings through critics’ writings
Elena Alessandri
PART II – (Re)creative performances in context
5. Creative processes in recreating early recordings
Anna Scott
6. Performing rock in the recording studio: Agency and structure within creative practice
Paul Thompson and Phillip McIntyre
7. Furrowing sound: Performance record cutting
Dylan Beattie
8. From magnetic tape to digital media: Performative approaches to the recorded contents of Constança Capdeville’s experimental musical works
Helena Marinho, Mónica Chambel, Alfonso Benetti, Luís Bittencourt and Joaquim Branco
PART III – Educational prospects and challenges
9. Nurturing the musical imagination: Listening to recordings for self-regulated and creative learning
Georgia Volioti and Aaron Williamon
10. Early recordings and the training of performers: Lessons from a European conservatoire
Massimo Zicari and Michele Biasutti
11. Teaching the rights way: The case for integrating copyright into the higher music education curriculum
Mathew Flynn and Rachael Drury
12. The analogue music studio: Education and research as heritage-in-process
Leah Kardos and Isabella van Elferen
13. New approaches to working with recordings in practice-led research and teaching of ‘world’ musics: A case study of Cuban dance music
Sue Miller
14. Afterword: Acknowledging our cyborg identities in the music history curriculum
Daniel Barolsky
Index
Biography
Georgia Volioti is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and revolve around music performance studies, music psychology, and education. Her work, which is published in leading peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, explores diverse topics such as the cultural reception, historiography, criticism and analysis of performance, the media and materiality of recording technologies, listening practices, musicians’ learning and the evaluation of performance.
Daniel Barolsky is a Professor of Music at Beloit College in Wisconsin, USA, and the co-editor and co-founder of Open Access Musicology. His research interests include performance and analysis as well as music history, theory, and pedagogy. He was originally inspired to pursue music studies because of his obsession with Glenn Gould and Jacqueline du Pré.
