Word and Music Studies: Essays on Performativity and on Surveying the Field ()

The Main Section Of This Volume Of Essays Addresses The Topic Of ‘performativity In Literature And Music’, A Subject Of High Contemporary Relevance Since A Substantial Part Of Recent Reflections In The Humanities Are Concerned With The Performance Aspect Of Cultural Activities, Particularly In The Arts. This Decisive Reorientation Of Scholarly Interests In The Arts, Trendily Called The ‘performative Turn’, Has Yielded Significant Contributions To An Increasingly Refined Understanding Of Artistic Processes From An Up-to-date Perspective, And Specifically What Has Been Called The ‘crisis Of The Work Concept’ Has Sharpened Our Awareness Of The Need Of Finding The ‘proper’ Object Of Such Scholarly Investigations, Which, As In Most Traditional Studies, Cannot Be Exclusively The Written Documents Of Our Cultural Heritage, But Additionally, And Essentially So, Their Actualizations In Performance Situations. Performativity And The Musical Work Of Art / Tobias Janz — Text Vs Act : The Bearbeitungsfrage And The ‘romantic Baroque’ / David Francis Urrows — The Act Of Performance As Mahlerian Topic / Robert Samuels — Politics, Music And Irony In Alejo Carpentier’s Novel La Consagración De La Primavera (the Rite Of Spring) / Katia Chornik — Musical Performativity In The Fiction Of Katherine Mansfield / Delia Da Sousa Correa — Rythmical Ambivalence Of Poetry Performance : The Case Of Elizabethan Verse / Walter Bernhart — Music Will Keep Out Temporary Ideas: W.b. Yeats’s Radio Performances / Adrian Paterson — ‘the Invisible’ ‘the Inaudible’ : Aspects Of Performativity In Celan And Leibowitz / Axel Englund — Romantic Opera And The Virtuoso / Simon Williams — Sexing Song : Brigitte Fassbaender’s Winterreise / Lawrence Kramer — Vocal Embodiment And Performing Language In Waiting For The Barbarians : Philip Glass’s Adaptation Of J.m. Coetzee’s Novel / Michael Halliwell — Operatic Hyperreality In The Twenty-first Century : Performance Documentation In High-definition Quality / Bernhard Kuhn — Jazz Novels And The Textualization Of Musical Performance / Emily Petermann — Charles Mingus And Performative Composing / Mario Dunkel — Wittgenstein And Schoenberg On Performativity Of Music As Method For Philosophy / Katrin Eggers — Seeing Words And Music As A Painter Might : The Interart Aesthetic / Peter Dayan — Milian Kundera’s Polyphonic Novels And The Poetics Of Divestment / David Mosley. Edited By Walter Bernhart In Collaboration With Michael Halliwell. The Essays Collected In This Volume … Are All Versions Of Papers Read At The Seventh International Conference Of The International Association For Word And Music Studies (wma) Held At The University Of Music And Performing Arts Vienna In June 2009–introd. Includes Bibliographical References.