Institutionalization in Music History

Abstract

This volume provides new insights into the impact of the development of institutionalization on music, musical practices, and society at large. It is divided into three thematic sections, the first of which deals with the institutionalization of musical practices. The articles move from the emergence of theater and opera culture in nineteenth century Greece to the dominance of radio in the dissemination of music at the height of the disco boom in the United States in the 1970s. The second part of the volume highlights the impact of music exhibitions and festivals on the institutionalization of music, including music education, and reflects the political power structures behind this phenomenon. Politics and power are emphasized in part three, which examines the possibilities for women musicians in the late nineteenth century, the impact of colonization and imperialism on the nature of the institutionalization of musical life, and the challenge to these political forces. The publication is based on a conference of the same name organized by the History Forum of the University of the Arts in 2018.

Derek B. Scott (eds.) Saijaleena Rantanen (eds.) Avra Xepapadakou Derek B. Scott Kristin Van den Buys Daniel Moro Vallina Mark E. Perry

Sarah Kirby Brandon Farnsworth Ardian Ahmedaja Melanie Strumbl Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik Irene Pang Rūta Stanevičiūte ̇

CONTENTS

Derek B. Scott and Saijaleena Rantanen: Foreword

PART I – Institutionalization Past and Present

Avra Xepapadakou: Towards the Institutionalization of Musical Life in Nineteenth- Century Greece and Southeastern Europe: The First Steps of the Formation of New Creative and Cultural Industries

Derek B. Scott: Music Hall: Regulations and Behaviour in a British Cultural Institution

Kristin Van den Buys: National Radio Broadcasting: The Last Bastion of Modernism in the Interwar Period in Brussels

Daniel Moro Vallina: From Serialism to Mobile Form. The Institutionalization of Avant-Garde in Madrid and its Influence on the Aesthetics of the Generation of 51

Mark E. Perry:“Disco Sucks:” The Decline and Fall of Disco Music

PART II – Musical Exhibitions & Festivals Sarah Kirby:“A mystery, and viewless / Even when present:” Exhibiting Music at International Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Brandon Farnsworth: Contemporary Music and the Curatorial Turn: Surveying Curatorial Practices from Curators-as-Authors to Institutional Critique

Ardian Ahmedaja: The Presentation of Traditions in Albania as a Mediation of Political Events: From National Awakening to the National Folklore Festival as Institution

Melanie Strumbl:The International Exhibition of Music and Drama 1892 and its Influence on the Institutionalization of the Musicology Department in Vienna

PART III – Musical Institutions and Power Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik: Salons, Conservatoires, Restaurant Orchestras: Women Musicians and Cultural Institutions in Late-Nineteenth-Century Europe

Irene Pang: Mediating between Music and Society: Semi-colonial Ideology in the Early History of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra

Rūta Stanevičiūte˙:: The Soviet Empire, Baltic Musicological Conferences, and the Institutionalization of Alternative Knowledge