Curating Contemporary Music Festivals | Brandon Farnsworth

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A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation

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.

326 pages, transcript, 2020
ISBN 978-3-8376-5243-7

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This work is an adaptation of the dissertation “Curating Festivals for Contemporary Music” submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
With support from the Zurich University of the Arts, Institute for Theory (ith)

 

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    A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation

    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.

    326 pages (PDF), transcript, 2020
    ISBN 978-3-8394-5243-1

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