Music, Society, Agency

Nancy November is Professor of Musicology at The University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research centers on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship (2010-12); and three Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society. She recently published a book on Beethoven’s Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

• IntroductionNancy NovemberPart One: Cultural and Cross-Cultural AgenciesThe Year the Music Died: Agency in the Context of Demise on Takū, Papua New GuineaRichard Moyle“One of the finest and best-appointed theatres in the colonies”: His Majesty’s Theatre and the Evolution of Entertainment in Dunedin, New ZealandSandra Crawshaw“In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room”: Musicalizing the South Pacific in Disney’s Theme ParksGregory CampPart Two: Vocal Music’s AgenciesFigaro Transmuted through the Agency of Neapolitan Social and Political Creatives: Niccolò Piccinni’s La serva onorataLawrence MaysJosephinism and Leopold Koželuh’s Masonic Cantata Joseph der Menschheit Segen Allan BadleyAgency, Politics, and Opera Arrangements in Fanny von Arnstein’s SalonsNancy NovemberPart Three: Performance and AgencyReflections on Aladdin’s Lamp: Developing a Framework for Creative Practice Research in-and-through Historically Informed PerformanceImogen MorrisWhen Your Heart Is Set on Both Broadway and the Met: An Exploration of Vocal Technique in Contemporary Musical TheatreChristopher McRaePart Four: Composition and Agency“Brows betwixt and between”: The Agents of the Cultural Middlebrow and the Use of Topoi in Benjamin Britten’s First Suite for Cello Eliana DunfordProvincializing Practice: Parsing Historical Influences on Contemporary Cross-Cultural Music in Aotearoa/New ZealandCeleste OramContributorsIndex