New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations between 1955-1975 by Robert ...

Name: New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations between 1955-1975 by Robert ...
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The \u2018new music theatre\u2019 wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres, the conventions of performance, and the composer\u2019s relation to society. This volume brings together leading specialists from across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer; and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music analysis. Contributing authors ad.