[ecrea] New book: Recomposing the Past

****New book released by Routledge February 2018***

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

Edited by James Cook; Alexander Kolassa and Adam Whittaker

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important 
ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors 
examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular 
early music, to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture, popular and 
otherwise, is awash with a stylised – sometimes contradictory – musical 
history. And yet for all its complexities, these representations of the 
past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective 
imaginations understand history. More importantly, they offer a valuable 
insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative 
strategies, the book argues, cross generic boundaries, and as such it 
brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film 
(Lord of the Rings and Dangerous Liasions), television (Game of Thrones 
and The Borgias), video game (Dragon Warrior and Gauntlet), and opera 
(Written on Skin, Taverner, and English ‘dramatick opera’). This 
collection constitutes a significant, and interdisciplinary, 
contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing 
creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary 
sections, grouped not by genre or media but by theme, it considers, ‘ 
Authenticity, Appropriateness, and Recomposing the Past’, ‘Music, Space, 
and Place: Geography as History’, and ‘Presentness and the Past: 
Dialogues between Old and New’. Like the musical collage that is our 
shared multimedia historical soundscape, it is hoped that this 
collection is, in its eclecticism, more than the sum of its parts.
Further inforamtion, including details of how to order available at:

https://www.routledge.com/Recomposing-the-Past-Representations-of-Early-Music-on-Stage-and-Screen/Cook-Kolassa-Whittaker/p/book/9781138287471


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