Download or read book Curating Contemporary Music Festivals written by Brandon Farnsworth and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.
Download or read book Defragmentation written by Michael Rebhahn and published by Schott Music. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Defragmentation - Curating Contemporary Music" is a research project with the aim of anchoring discourses on gender and diversity, decolonization and technological change that are currently being conducted in many disciplines in new music institutions and discussing curatorial practices in this field. The volume brings together a four-day convention as part of the Darmstadt Ferienkurse 2018.
Download or read book Curating Contemporary Music Festivals written by Brandon Farnsworth and published by Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music and how they could be a solution to the field's diminishing social relevance. He focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele.
Download or read book Curatorial Practice at Contemporary Performance Festivals in the United States written by Christine Gwillim and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary performance festivals (CPFs) are a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. This dissertation documents the rise of contemporary performance festivals in the United States in the early 2000s. As festivals have grown and developed larger audiences, CPF curators find themselves mediating their international relationships and commitments with their deep knowledge and experience of local communities. Broadly, my study focuses on curatorial decisions guiding organizational growth goals and their relationship to public expectations and local demographics. I focus on three prominent US-based festivals: Fusebox Festival in Austin, Texas, Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival in Portland, Oregon, and Under the Radar (UtR) Festival in New York City, all of which began in the early 2000s and soon thereafter began to influence one another. Representing distinct regions of the country and operating under differing institutional models, they are connected through their shared timelines, similar curatorial practices, like-minded mixing of contemporary dance, theatre, performance, and visual art, as well as their close-knit relations to each other—ties that often result in shared programming. The founding curators from each of these festivals, Ron Berry (Fusebox), Mark Russell (UtR), and Kristy Edmunds (TBA), participate in an international network of curators that convenes around shared artistic visions and curatorial goals. Each of these festivals also programs local–international pairings—placing exciting local artists alongside internationally recognized artists. In doing so, they make spaces for local and international artists, presenters, and audiences to commingle. To illustrate the potential impact of the affective experiences, developed by building relationships, I deploy the framework of space, place, and landscape as used in cultural geography. Given that the artists in these festivals are drawn from an international pool, my study demonstrates that the curatorial efforts of these festivals operate on registers that are simultaneously global and local and that curators act as agents to a uniquely local form of shaping places
Download or read book Curating Pop written by Sarah Baker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions, which has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and processes, this book draws on interviews with museum workers and curators from twenty museums globally, including the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the Experience Music Project in Seattle and the PopMuseum in Prague. Through a consideration of the subjective experiences of curators involved in the exhibition of popular music in museums in a range of geographic locations, Curating Pop compares institutional practices internationally, illustrating the ways in which popular music history is presented to visitorsin a wider sense."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Download or read book A Guide to Music Festivals in America written by Carol Price Rabin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Guide to Music Festivals written by Douglas Smith and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Festivals in America written by Carol Price Rabin and published by Countryman Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this popular musical travel guide, published in 1981 under the title A Guide to Music Festivals in America, has been updated and expanded with more than 45 new entries from the U.S. and Canada plus one festival each from Puerto Rico and Bermuda. It lists musical festivals by types of music: classical, opera, jazz and ragtime, pop and light classical, folk and traditional, bluegrass, oldtime fiddlers and country. Carol describes each festival's past history, location, days of performances, former featured artists, general ambience, and provides addresses for tickets and accommodations. Celia Elke's pen-and-ink drawings add further luster to this unique guide. ISBN 0-912944-74-9 (pbk.) : $8.95.
Download or read book Curationism written by David Balzer and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' is now a buzzword applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows and biennials in a way that can eclipse and assimilate the contributions of individual artists. At the same time, curatorial studies programs continue to grow in popularity, and businesses are increasingly adopting curation as a means of adding value to content and courting demographics. Everyone, it seems, is a now a curator. But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture's relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this incisive and original study, critic David Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the cult of curation - where it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries, and how it was co-opted at the turn of the millennium as the dominant mode of organizing and giving value to content. At the centre of the book is a paradox: curation is institutionalized and expertise-driven like never before, yet the first independent curators were not formally trained, and any act of choosing has become 'curating.' Is the professional curator an oxymoron? Has curation reached a sort of endgame, where its widespread fetishization has led to its own demise?
Download or read book California Institute of the Arts Presents the Thirteenth Contemporary Music Festival written by California Institute of the Arts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Program written by Westminster Choir College and published by . This book was released on 1938* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Audience Experience and Contemporary Classical Music written by Gina Emerson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music. Through analysing how existing audience members experience live contemporary classical music, this book seeks to make data-informed contributions to future discussions on audience diversity and accessibility. The author takes a multidimensional view of audience experience, looking at how sociodemographic factors and the frames of social context and concert format shape aesthetic responses and experiences in the concert hall. The book presents quantitative and qualitative audience data collected at twelve concerts in ten different European countries, analysing general trends alongside case studies. It also offers the first large-scale comparisons between the concert experiences and tastes of contemporary classical and classical music audiences. Contemporary classical music is critically discussed as a ‘high art subculture’ rife with contradictions and conflicts around its cultural value. This book sheds light on how audiences negotiate the tensions between experimentalism and accessibility that currently define this genre. It provides insights relevant to academics from audience research in the performing arts and from musicology, as well as to institutions, practitioners and artists.
Download or read book Curating Live Arts written by Dena Davida and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.
Download or read book The Curating City written by Patrick Adler and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses the importance of curation in the contemporary economy, particularly in cities. Curators facilitate choice among symbolically-differentiated products either by directly choosing products on behalf of clients or otherwise lowering choice costs. Demand for curation is accelerating in sectors where symbolic differentiation is a source of value, including cultural products, finance, and research. This is both because these sectors command a greater share of economic activity and because digital technologies have dramatically expanded the available supply of symbolic products. Here, the focus is on how professional curation is organized within symbolic/creative industries and across space. Curation is said to resemble a relay wherein the decisions/outputs of some curators are incorporated as inputs into curation decisions downstream. As product sets are passed through this system, the number of products under consideration is lowered along with the level of uncertainty surrounding each product's value. Because curation systems require continuous information exchange, they should realize benefits from localization. Five types of agglomeration economies are identified: the superiority of face-to-face communication, the ability to form information cascades, coordination of 'consideration sets', the ability to determine what the market values, and provenance effects. Two empirical analyses support these propositions. A small study of the US labor force finds that curating occupational categories agglomerate at higher levels. A detailed analysis of major music festival programming between 2017 and 2019 shows that previously curated acts are more likely to be selected to festivals, that festival programmers are more likely to select acts from their local environment, and that acts from prominent music scenes are more likely to be selected to major festivals, controlling for quality. LA, New York, Nashville, and London are said to export 37% of music festival acts to major festivals, at least in part, because musicians in these places have better access to curation systems. These results as well as the theory of curation presented here suggest that the ability of 'creative cities' to unearth or determine product value may be currently understated.
Download or read book New Music and Institutional Critique written by Christian Grüny and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s institutions, their critique, and their transformations. For scholars, leaders, and practitioners alike, it offers an important overview of current developments as well as theoretical reflections about New Music and its institutions today. In this way, it provides a major contribution to the debate about the present and future of contemporary music.
Download or read book Curation in the Age of Platform Capitalism written by Panos Kompatsiaris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs the figure of curation—the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things—to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it looks at curation as the interweaving of innovative concepts, elaborate storytelling, and trusted experts leaking out from galleries to hashtags. Its logic encompasses diverse spheres ranging from high-brow art and the fashion world to low-brow experience economies and economies of authenticity, from confidence cultures and relationship gurus to algorithmic spectacles. More than an economy, “curate and be curated” is a diffused imperative amidst the disorienting spread of information that digital platforms enable: What to post, what to wear, what to eat, what friends to have, what music to hear, what films to watch, what places to visit, what socks to choose, and what opinion to have about serious issues like climate change, military coups, AI, genetics, space colonization, and cryonics, or everyday issues like football, fashion, and diet. Drawing on critical platform theory, material culture, and multi-sited ethnography, the book examines curated worlds of coolness, authenticity, and inspiration, including the luxury fashion brands Vetements and Balenciaga, Airbnb food experiences, and the figure of the life coach. The book argues that the curatorial imperative endorses an aspirational class imaginary and the idea that handling self-narratives is a strategic means of socialization that can assist upward mobilities as well as neoliberal narratives of well-being, promotion, and success. This book will be of key interest to academics, researchers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, curating, contemporary art theory, critical management studies, and art history, as well as to more general readers interested in new media, platforms, and digital culture.
Download or read book Classical Music Futures written by Neil Thomas Smith and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future can effect change in the present. A rich balance of theoretical and practical discussion brings authority to this collection, which lays the foundations for timely responses to challenges ranging from the concept of the musical work, and the colonial values within Western musical culture, to unsustainable models of orchestral touring. The authors highlight how labour to meet the demands of particular futures for classical music might impact its creation and consumption, presenting case studies to capture the mediating roles of technology and community engagement. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of musicology and the sociology of music, as well as a general audience of practitioners, freelance musicians, music administrators and educators.
