The Extensions of Opera
Radio, Internet, and Immersion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14810564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Schürmer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 401-413 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07494467.2022.2087390 |
| OpenAlex | W4283820424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Social distancing is a central (un)word of the pandemic year 2020. Now, music culture thrives on performative ‘liveness’—even in classical music, where live experience has become the core of the musical artwork in the age of its mechanical reproduction. At the same time, the history of music can be read as a history of the dissolution of boundaries: from the body (voice), to mechanical instruments, to electronic extensions. Accelerated by regulations in response to the COVID-19 crisis, music culture passes another media transformation, entering new virtual stages. In fact, crisis always implies changes and chances too: economists call it ‘creative destruction’, artists call it innovation. And indeed, ‘social distancing’ in interaction with accelerated digitalisation also holds media-aesthetic potential. With the support of new media, and this is the hypothesis of this essay, the contemporary music scene in particular can form new dramatic forms that go far beyond the classical one-way stream: by enabling virtual participation instead of physical co-presence
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Distancing · John Cage · Liveness · Media studies · Music history · Music industry · Musical · Opera · Performance art · Performative utterance · Programming · Sociology · The Internet · Visual arts · Computer Science · Economic and Technological Innovation · Economic Development and Digital Transformation
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |