Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama
Title | Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2023-11-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004549609 |
This collection offers an in-depth study of music’s narrative functions in radio drama, whether original or adapted, alongside speech and sound. It features a range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America, highlighting broadcasting institutions such as the BBC, RAI, ABC, WDR and SWR, from early radio to the medium’s postwar golden age and contemporary productions. Not limited to classical or popular music, the chapters also pay attention to electronic varieties and musical uses of language, in addition to intermedial exchanges with other art forms such as theatre, opera and film. In doing so, the present volume sits at the crossroads of various disciplines: musicology, narratology, history, literary, media, sound and radio studies.
Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama
Title | Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Pim Verhulst |
Publisher | Word and Music Studies |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789004549593 |
This collection offers an in-depth study of the storytelling functions that music can assume in radio drama alongside words and sounds, featuring a wide range of historical perspectives as well as case studies from Australia, Europe and North America.
Samuel Beckett and the Arts
Title | Samuel Beckett and the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Davide Crosara |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2024-06-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 183998967X |
Beckett’s dialogue with the arts (music, painting, digital media) has found a growing critical attention, from seminal comprehensive studies (Oppenheim 2000; Harvey, 1967, to name just two) to more recent contributions (Gontarski, ed., 2014; Lloyd, 2018). Research has progressively moved from a general inquiry on Beckett beyond the strictly literary to issues related to intermediality and embodiment (Maude, 2009; Tajiri, 2007), post humanism and technology (Boulter, 2019; Kirushina, Adar, Nixon eds, 2021), intersections with popular culture (Pattie and Stewart, eds., 2019). However, a specific analysis on Beckett’s relationship with Italian arts and poetry on one side–and on Italian artists’ response to Beckett’s oeuvre on the other–is still missing. The volume offers an original examination of Beckett’s presence on the contemporary Italian cultural scene, a stage where he became (and still is) the fulcrum of some of the most significant experimentations across different genres and media. The reader will look at him as an “Italian” artist, in constant dialogue with the most significant modern European cultural turns.
Radio / body
Title | Radio / body PDF eBook |
Author | Farokh Soltani |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526149826 |
This study provides an in-depth exploration of the dramaturgical practices of radio drama and their underlying philosophical assumptions. By presenting an analytical model drawn from phenomenology, it challenges the current understanding of the medium, instead focusing on the bodily and aural aspects of radio drama, while offering a critique of the conventions of dramaturgical practice for neglecting these affective sonic aspects. Tracing these conventions through the history of the development of radio drama, it proposes that a more bodily, resonant mode of radio dramaturgy is best placed to meet the demands of the current era of digital production and distribution. The book also examines a number of approaches to creating a more embodied experience for the listener.
Mediations
Title | Mediations PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Esslin |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2022-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100064572X |
First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin’s earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht. In the third section of this collection of essays, Esslin discusses the mass media as dramatic art and their effects – radio as a medium for drama; television’s insatiable appetite for artistic skills, its commercials, and its series, which he labels modern folk epics. Intimately acquainted with the cultural implications of several languages and ideologies and with the possibility for distortion inherent in translating them, Esslin’s Mediations gathers together decades of his rich experience and reflections on cross linguistic and artistic boundaries, as well as theatre. This book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, and media studies.
Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano
Title | Franz Liszt’s Songs for Voice and Piano PDF eBook |
Author | Małgorzata Gamrat |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2023-11-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9004548866 |
How does a Romantic composer approach the poetry he sets: as raw material to be remade, a pretext for self-expression, a sanctified artefact, or a message to be illustrated with music? In my book, I examine Franz Liszt’s songs for voice and piano, which remain little known to scholars, artists, and music lovers alike. The objective is to present Liszt’s songs in all their complexity and diversity as well as identifying the key elements of the composer’s broadly understood song-writing technique – both those that make him unique and those that relate him to the European tradition. This approach also makes it possible to shed light on a major though previously neglected aspect of the composer’s workshop, namely, his work with the poetic text, which to Liszt was just as important as the musical setting.
Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde
Title | Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde PDF eBook |
Author | Inge Arteel |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 2021-07-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1526155702 |
Bringing together an international and diverse group of scholars, Tuning in to the neo-avant-garde offers the first in-depth study of the radio medium’s significance as a site of artistic experimentation for the literary neo-avant-garde in the postwar period. Covering radio works from the 1950s until the 2010s, the collection charts how artists across the UK, Europe and North America continued as well as reacted to the legacies of the historical avant-garde and modernism, operating within different national broadcasting contexts, by placing radio in an intermedial dialogue with prose, poetry, theatre, music and film. In doing so, the volume explores a wide variety of acoustic genres – radio play, feature, electroacoustic music, radiophonic poem, radio opera – to show that the medium deserves to occupy a more central place than it currently does in studies of literature, (inter)media(lity) and the (neo-)avant-garde.