Series Editors
Katharine Ellis (Royal Holloway)
Jonathan Glixon (University of Kentucky)
David Gramit (University of Alberta)
Jeffrey Jackson (Rhodes College)

This exciting new series brings history and musicology together in ways that will embed the social and cultural history of music into the very fabric of history and musicology. Music in Society and Culture approaches music as a subject and not a discipline which can be discussed in myriad ways. Many are cross-disciplinary, requiring a mastery of more than one mode of enquiry. This series therefore invites research on art and popular music in the Western tradition and in cross-cultural encounters involving Western music, from the Early Modern period to the twentieth century. Monographs in the series will demonstrate how music operates within a particular historical, social, political or institutional context, how and why society and its sub-sections choose their music, how historical, cultural and musical change inter-relate, and how, for whom, and why music’s value undergoes critical reassessment.

These preoccupations demand authors who acknowledge that musical change and economic imperatives are often intertwined; that institutions, ritual and patronage patterns constrain performance and composition even as they enable it to flourish; that cultural values shift for political reasons; and that the members of amateur musical societies might attend rehearsals as much to introduce their daughters to the right kind of suitor as to indulge their melomania. Such perspectives encourage a kind of cultural history that sees music ‘in the round’—as one cultural expression among many, and as contingent, socially embedded, and valued as much for what it represents as for the sounds it makes.

The series will be free to embrace music—including technical musical description and musical notation—as part of its own cultural history. Where music examples are used, they will be presented alongside prose that brings the character of the relevant score to life for the non-technical reader.

Music in Society and Culture will publish books that will be of interest not only to scholars of music and history, but also area studies, liturgy and religious studies, women’s studies, film studies, cultural studies, reception history, and art history.

Proposals or queries should be sent in the first instance to one of the series editors, or to Michael Middeke (Senior Commissioning Editor, Boydell & Brewer) at the addresses below. All submissions will receive prompt and informed consideration.

Professor Katharine Ellis, Department of Music, Royal Holloway
University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
Email: K.Ellis@rhul.ac.uk

Professor Jonathan Glixon, School of Music, College of Fine Arts,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0022, USA
Email: jonathan.glixon@uky.edu

Professor David Gramit, Department of Music, University of Alberta,
3–82 Fine Arts Building, Edmonton Alberta T6G 2C9, Canada
Email: dgramit@ualberta.ca

Professor Jeffrey Jackson, Department of History, Rhodes College,
2000 North Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112, USA
Email: jacksonj@rhodes.edu

Dr Michael Middeke, Senior Commissioning Editor,
Boydell & Brewer, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK
Email: mmiddeke@boydell.co.uk
 

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