Caroline Bithell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1358429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Bithell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Bithell |
| SIGNATURE | BITHELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3021-0186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intercultural musicking: Learning through klezmer
This article focuses on a particular arena of creative practice: music students’ largely sonic experience of Otherness through world music ensemble performance of klezmer (music with its roots in the weddings and other social occasions of mostly Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews in eastern and central Europe). Having briefly introduced klezmer, we situate our university ensemble into the traditions for teaching/learning it. We then present our peda…
World Music
In its literal sense, world music encompasses all forms and styles of music produced by the world's peoples. In the music industry, it is used as a marketing category for a metagenre that encompasses classical, popular, folk, and traditional music from outside the Anglo‐American and European mainstream as well as new hybrid styles. Ethnomusicologists draw on methodologies from musicology, anthropology, and cultural studies to investigate traditio…
Oxford Handbook of Music Revival
The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival
Revival movements aim to revitalise traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America, those occurring and recurring elsewhere in the world have received little or no attention. Particularly under-analysed are the aftermaths of revivals: the new infrastructures, musical styles, performance practic…
A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that “everyone can sing”, the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe. First, the book reveals how and why songs from non-Western and folk traditions inf…
An Introduction to Music Revival as Concept, Cultural Process, and Medium of Change
This chapter offers fresh theoretical perspectives for understanding music revival as concept, cultural process, and medium of change. Upon reviewing existing revival scholarship and contextualizing it within nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual history, the authors identify new territories (social, political, geographical, and ontological) that are ripe for critical examination through the revival lens. The chapter?s key arguments are a…
The Past in Music: Introduction
In this introduction to a selection of case studies on the theme "the past in music" I offer a few thoughts on the nature of the past and the role of memory in constructing historical narrative, with reference to the way in which these concepts have been theorized by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. In reviewing the different ways in which echoes of the past can still be heard in the music of the present, I cons…
On the playing fields of the world (and Corsica): Politics, power, passion and polyphony
In this article I consider issues relating to the impact of the fieldworker on the communities studied, both in the immediate present through our involvement in the field, and retrospectively (notably in cases where our recordings might serve to fuel musical revivals by future generations). In the process I revisit aspects of the post-modern dilemma (representation, repatriation, etc.) in the context of my own fieldwork in Corsica, aiming to high…
Corsica
Polyphony
Polyphonic voices: National identity, world music and the recording of traditional music in Corsica
Following a brief introduction tracing the interplay of changing socio‐political conditions and musical tastes behind the Corsican cultural revival of the past two decades and the extensive recording activity which has resulted, this article goes on to discuss recent recordings of traditional vocal music—in particular polyphony—and the way in which performers’ political and artistic motivations and ideologies inform their interpretation of the so…
The Past in Music: Introduction
In this introduction to a selection of case studies on the theme "the past in music" I offer a few thoughts on the nature of the past and the role of memory in constructing historical narrative, with reference to the way in which these concepts have been theorized by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. In reviewing the different ways in which echoes of the past can still be heard in the music of the present, I cons…
An Introduction to Music Revival as Concept, Cultural Process, and Medium of Change
This chapter offers fresh theoretical perspectives for understanding music revival as concept, cultural process, and medium of change. Upon reviewing existing revival scholarship and contextualizing it within nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual history, the authors identify new territories (social, political, geographical, and ontological) that are ripe for critical examination through the revival lens. The chapter?s key arguments are a…
A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that “everyone can sing”, the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe. First, the book reveals how and why songs from non-Western and folk traditions inf…
Intercultural musicking: Learning through klezmer
This article focuses on a particular arena of creative practice: music students’ largely sonic experience of Otherness through world music ensemble performance of klezmer (music with its roots in the weddings and other social occasions of mostly Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews in eastern and central Europe). Having briefly introduced klezmer, we situate our university ensemble into the traditions for teaching/learning it. We then present our peda…
The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival
Revival movements aim to revitalise traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America, those occurring and recurring elsewhere in the world have received little or no attention. Particularly under-analysed are the aftermaths of revivals: the new infrastructures, musical styles, performance practic…
Polyphonic voices: National identity, world music and the recording of traditional music in Corsica
Following a brief introduction tracing the interplay of changing socio‐political conditions and musical tastes behind the Corsican cultural revival of the past two decades and the extensive recording activity which has resulted, this article goes on to discuss recent recordings of traditional vocal music—in particular polyphony—and the way in which performers’ political and artistic motivations and ideologies inform their interpretation of the so…
Corsica
Polyphony
On the playing fields of the world (and Corsica): Politics, power, passion and polyphony
In this article I consider issues relating to the impact of the fieldworker on the communities studied, both in the immediate present through our involvement in the field, and retrospectively (notably in cases where our recordings might serve to fuel musical revivals by future generations). In the process I revisit aspects of the post-modern dilemma (representation, repatriation, etc.) in the context of my own fieldwork in Corsica, aiming to high…
The Past in Music: Introduction
In this introduction to a selection of case studies on the theme "the past in music" I offer a few thoughts on the nature of the past and the role of memory in constructing historical narrative, with reference to the way in which these concepts have been theorized by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. In reviewing the different ways in which echoes of the past can still be heard in the music of the present, I cons…
An Introduction to Music Revival as Concept, Cultural Process, and Medium of Change
This chapter offers fresh theoretical perspectives for understanding music revival as concept, cultural process, and medium of change. Upon reviewing existing revival scholarship and contextualizing it within nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual history, the authors identify new territories (social, political, geographical, and ontological) that are ripe for critical examination through the revival lens. The chapter?s key arguments are a…
The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival
Revival movements aim to revitalise traditions perceived as threatened or moribund by adapting them to new temporal, spatial and social contexts. While many of these movements have been well-documented in Western Europe and North America, those occurring and recurring elsewhere in the world have received little or no attention. Particularly under-analysed are the aftermaths of revivals: the new infrastructures, musical styles, performance practic…
A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song
This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that “everyone can sing”, the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe. First, the book reveals how and why songs from non-Western and folk traditions inf…
Oxford Handbook of Music Revival
World Music
In its literal sense, world music encompasses all forms and styles of music produced by the world's peoples. In the music industry, it is used as a marketing category for a metagenre that encompasses classical, popular, folk, and traditional music from outside the Anglo‐American and European mainstream as well as new hybrid styles. Ethnomusicologists draw on methodologies from musicology, anthropology, and cultural studies to investigate traditio…
Intercultural musicking: Learning through klezmer
This article focuses on a particular arena of creative practice: music students’ largely sonic experience of Otherness through world music ensemble performance of klezmer (music with its roots in the weddings and other social occasions of mostly Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews in eastern and central Europe). Having briefly introduced klezmer, we situate our university ensemble into the traditions for teaching/learning it. We then present our peda…
Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · Music History and Culture (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Musical (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works)