This volume demonstrates the recent direction of cultural history, as it is now being practiced in both history and musicology, to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding and meaning-how they are constructed, negotiated and communicated on both an individual and a social level. Just as historians in their quest to understand the construction and transmission of meaning, musicologists are turning to new inquiries into cultural representations and their social dynamics, while remaining...

•  Introduction. Defining the New Cultural History of Music: Its Origins, Current Directions and Methodologies
•  Jane F. Fulcher
•  PART I: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ITS EXPRESSION: CONSTRUCTIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND EXCHANGES
•  Constructions or Representations of the Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Race
•  1. A Woman's Place: Antiphons and Responsories for Virgin Martyrs in the Office
•  James Borders
•  2. Music, Violence, and the Stakes of Listening
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