Joanne Cormac
Biographic Data
| ID | 5960989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Cormac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Cormac |
| SIGNATURE | CORMAC J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2484-1990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Regionalizing the Nation
Historians of nationalisms and national-identity construction increasingly analyze identities at various geographical levels, especially the local, regional, and the transnational. Such work has repositioned and nuanced national identity in relation to other competing and complementary ties. However, there remains a tendency in musicology to overemphasize and simplify the German symphony’s nationalist, unifying role in the nineteenth century by n…
Wagner in Context
Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
From Satirical Piece to Commercial Product
Current studies of burlesque position it as a subversive genre that questioned cultural and social hierarchies and spoke to diverse audiences. Central to this interpretation are burlesque's juxtapositions of high and low culture, particularly popular and operatic music. This article problematizes this view, proposing that mid-Victorian burlesques lost their satirical bite. Demonstrating little concern for the tastes or interests of the poorer or …
Franz Liszt
Charismatic and iconic, Liszt remains a fascinating but problematic subject for biographers. Many have attempted to capture this complicated and contradictory figure, from the music critic Joseph d’Ortigue, who published the first biographical sketch in the Gazette musicale de Paris on 14 June 1835 when Liszt was not quite 24 years old, to the most recent biography written by Oliver Hilmes. This wealth of writing offers fascinating insights into …
Paganini
When historical figures are romanticized and mythologized to the extent that Paganini has been, there is always a risk that they may be entirely engulfed by their own legend. The result can be that we are left with very little sense of the person behind the fiction. Indeed, perhaps the myth is so fascinating that it is preferable to the reality. A number of composers and musicians seem particularly prone to being mythologized. The process begins …
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Paganini
When historical figures are romanticized and mythologized to the extent that Paganini has been, there is always a risk that they may be entirely engulfed by their own legend. The result can be that we are left with very little sense of the person behind the fiction. Indeed, perhaps the myth is so fascinating that it is preferable to the reality. A number of composers and musicians seem particularly prone to being mythologized. The process begins …
Liszt and the Symphonic Poem
From Satirical Piece to Commercial Product
Current studies of burlesque position it as a subversive genre that questioned cultural and social hierarchies and spoke to diverse audiences. Central to this interpretation are burlesque's juxtapositions of high and low culture, particularly popular and operatic music. This article problematizes this view, proposing that mid-Victorian burlesques lost their satirical bite. Demonstrating little concern for the tastes or interests of the poorer or …
Franz Liszt
Charismatic and iconic, Liszt remains a fascinating but problematic subject for biographers. Many have attempted to capture this complicated and contradictory figure, from the music critic Joseph d’Ortigue, who published the first biographical sketch in the Gazette musicale de Paris on 14 June 1835 when Liszt was not quite 24 years old, to the most recent biography written by Oliver Hilmes. This wealth of writing offers fascinating insights into …
Wagner in Context
Regionalizing the Nation
Historians of nationalisms and national-identity construction increasingly analyze identities at various geographical levels, especially the local, regional, and the transnational. Such work has repositioned and nuanced national identity in relation to other competing and complementary ties. However, there remains a tendency in musicology to overemphasize and simplify the German symphony’s nationalist, unifying role in the nineteenth century by n…
Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Character (mathematics) (2 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works)