The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music. Edited by Jane Fulcher

The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music 
Edited by Jane Fulcher
Oxford University Press
2011

Description
As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself.
Features
First systematic combination of musicologists and historians
Demonstrates how music is becoming unique mode of access into specific cites of cultural representation, exchange, contestation and the construction of experience
New theoretical dimensions or inquiries characteristic of "the New Cultural History of Music"
Features contributors at the forefront of both musicology and history

Jane Fulcher is Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan. She has received research awards in both the United States and Europe, including The American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities (two awards), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (where she was the Edward T. Cone member in Music Studies for 2003-04). In addition, she has three times been invited to be visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.