Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture
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Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

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Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture

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This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the conceptual premise of modern debates in evolutionary musicology. Structured around the Great Chain of Being, chapters are organized by discipline in successively ascending order according to their object of study, from zoology and the study of animal music to theology and the music of God. Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture takes a non-Darwinian approach to the interpretation of Victorian scientific and musical interrelationships, debunking the idea that the arts had little influence on contemporary scientific ideas and, by probing the origins of musical interdisciplinarity, the volume shows how music helped ideas about evolution to evolve.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781108327060
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Zoomusicology
  11. 2 Ethnomusicology
  12. 3 Folk Musicology
  13. 4 Music Pedagogy
  14. 5 Music Biography
  15. 6 Music History
  16. 7 Music Theology
  17. Epilogue: Victorian Musical Culture and the Great Chain of Becoming
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index