Peter Burke: Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978)

Long neglected by historians, the concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past.First published in 1978, this study examines the broad sweep of pre-industrial Europe’s popular culture. From the world of the professional entertainer to the songs, stories, rituals and plays of ordinary people, it shows how the attitudes and values of the otherwise inarticulate shaped – and were shaped by – the shifting social, religious and political conditions of European society between 1500 and 1800.

Publisher Harper & Row, 1978
ISBN 0-06-131928-7
366 pages

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Dalibor Davidović, Ksenija Stevanović (eds.): Archipelagos of Sound. Music and Its History Within the Imperial World Order (2005)

In this booklet we will focus on two general aspects that are to be singled out from a wide range of the possibilities suggested by subtitle Music and its History Within the Imperial World Order: What could be a definition of the historicity of music/sound-material that reflects the basic determinants of the digital age? The question is centered on multiplicity of the present in the past, i.e. how a contemporary view rediscovers the musical history. Post-globalized world, the one after first cycle of globalization, is just the one aspect of taking-place of the world, unable to completely consume up all the potentials of worldliness. Borrowing here Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of mondialisation, which designates a powerful reassessment of the notions of world and creation, we’re interested what such a concept – mondialisation – could mean for the music. What does it mean to make (create) music after the globalization?

With texts by Peter Szendy, DJ Spooky and Stevanović & Davidović
Translation: Irena Ajdinović, Dalibor Davidović, Ksenija Stevanović
Publisher: Croatian Composers’ Society – Cantus d.o.o., 2005
Joint-production of Music Biennale Zagreb and Multimedia Institute
80 pages

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Joseph Auner: A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life (2003)

“Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This authoritative new collection of Schoenberg’s essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer’s life, work, and thought.

The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg’s activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg’s career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.”

Publisher Yale University Press, 2003
ISBN 0300095406, 9780300095401
428 pages

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