Name: Rethinking the Musical Instrument
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Rethinking the Musical Instrument

Edited By: Mine Doğantan-Dack

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This volume explores musical instruments in creative practice and culture. Contributors examine acoustical, electronic and digital instruments, the relationships composers and performers establish with them, and their crucial role in creating musical experiences and meanings.

This volume brings together scholars and artist-researchers to explore the nature and function of musical instruments in creative practices, and their role in musical culture.…

This volume brings together scholars and artist-researchers to explore the nature and function of musical instruments in creative practices, and their role in musical culture. Through historical, theoretical, critical, practical-artistic perspectives and case studies, the contributors here examine identities and affordances of acoustical, electronic and digital musical instruments, the kinds of relationships that composers and performers establish with them, and the crucial role they play in the emergence of musical experiences and meanings.

Mine Doğantan-Dack is a musicologist and a concert pianist. She studied at the Juilliard School and holds a PhD from Columbia University. Her books include Mathis Lussy: A Pioneer in Studies of Expressive Performance (2002), the edited volumes Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections (2008) and Artistic Practice as Research in Music (2015), and a volume titled Music and Sonic Art: Theories and Practices (2018), which she co-edited with John Dack.

Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Ellen Fallowfield, Scott McLaughlin, Andrew Blackburn, Temina Cadi Sulumuna, Stephen Husarik, Stefan Östersjö, Olaf Hochherz, Katharina Schmidt, Carsten Wernicke, James Mooney, Marc Estibeiro, David Cotter, Anne Veinberg, Felipe Ignacio Noriega, Ewan Stefani, Sébastien Lebray, Slavisa Lamounier, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Diana Cardoso, Mine Doğantan-Dack