Current issue: Volume 29 Issue 6

What is the current state of music performance studies, how did it reach this point and where is it headed? In this special issue, we offer a comprehensive overview of the field, showcasing how its exponents engage imaginatively and critically with music performance across myriad different artistic contexts and asking how it can address some of the challenges, complexities and uncertainties we face in the twenty-first century. We re-evaluate music’s present place within the wider field of performance studies and explore how it might speak to other constituent arts to enhance and advance future transdisciplinary inquiry.

 

 

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1 On Music: Editorial: Pirouetting on the twists and turns of

music performance studies

TOM ARMSTRONG, GEORGIA VOLIOTI AND

CHRISTOPHER WILEY

 

8 Performing a Thirteenth-Century Romance: The Roman de

Silence

EVA MOREDA RODRÍGUEZ

 

17 Integrating the Popular in Nineteenth-Century

Improvisation: Immaterial labour and learning

MATTHEW PAUL MAZANEK

 

24 The Solo Tuba: Re-evaluating instruments, timbres and

performance practices

JACK ADLER-MCKEAN

 

32 Rediscovered Music, Undiscoverable Interpretation: A case

study of Ethel Smyth’s ‘Aus der Jugendzeit!! E. v. H.’

CHRISTOPHER WILEY

 

40 Text–Practice–Text…: Technological mediation and

a transatlantic composer–performer relationship

TOM ARMSTRONG AND MADELEINE SHAPIRO

 

47 Tracking the Social Process: Developing an autosociology

approach within improvised music practice

MARIA SAPPHO

 

55 Composing Improvisational Cells for Networked Music

Performance

MURPHY MCCALEB

 

62 The Musician as Compositional Material: Exploring

comprovisation in the genre-free improvisation of Landstrykere

TANJA ORNING

 

69 The Koortjie Undercommons: A cognizance of Other musics in a performance space reserved for Western art music

INGE ENGELBRECHT

 

75 Music Performance Studies and ‘Ethnomusicology at Home’:

Creating an interdisciplinary ‘site of care’

JENNIFER DANIEL

 

82 A Lament for the Earth: Performing loneliness and liminality

with Annie Lennox’s Dido

GEORGIA VOLIOTI

 

90 Death and Performative Engagement in Child of Tree

ANTHONY GRITTEN

 

97 Vocality, Interspecies Conflict and the Tourist Gaze:

Performance and human/nonhuman partnerships in post-

Soviet Kyrgyzstan’s hunting with golden eagles

FEDERICA NARDELLA

 

104 Towards a Multi-dimensional Understanding of the

Performer–Audience Relationship

KAREN BURLAND AND EMILY PAYNE

 

111 Staging Strings: Performance, (re)production and liveness in

object-based spatial audio contexts

MICHAEL HOLLAND AND MADDY PARKINS-CRAIG

 

117 Towards a Fluid Performance Practice: Responding to object

agency when adapting to unconventional instruments

COLIN FRANK

 

124 The Three-Dimensional Open Work: Reimagining

indeterminacy through 360° virtual reality scores

JONATHAN PACKHAM

 

130 DJ Performance Analysis: Issues, concepts, methods

IVAN MOURAVIEV

 

138 Musicology, Mind Palaces and Machines

JOSHUA NEUMANN

 

145 Creative Artificial Intelligence for Music Theatre:

AI mediation and artificial–human co-creativity in

contemporary science-fiction opera

ALEXANDRA HUANG-KOKINA

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REVIEWS

153 What Can Heavy Metal Do for Disability Studies?

ADAM PATRICK BELL

 

154 Can the Subaltern Perform? Reclaiming agency in Queens of

Afrobeat

KẸ́HÌNDÉ OLÚKÁYỌ̀DÉ

 

156 A Close Listening to Theatre Aurality

DANNY SCOTT

 

158 Dancing Connection

LINDSAY RAPPORT

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160 Notes on Contributors