Music, Society, Agency

Contents

• Introduction
• Nancy November
• Part One: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Agencies
• The Year the Music Died: Agency in the Context of Demise on Takū, Papua New Guinea
• Richard Moyle
• “One of the finest and best-appointed theatres in the colonies”: His Majesty’s Theatre and the Evolution of Entertainment in Dunedin, New Zealand
• Sandra Crawshaw
• “In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room”: Musicalizing the South Pacific in Disney’s Theme Parks
• Gregory Camp
• Part Two: Vocal Music’s Agencies
• Figaro Transmuted through the Agency of Neapolitan Social and Political Creatives: Niccolò Piccinni’s La serva onorata
• Lawrence Mays
• Josephinism and Leopold Koželuh’s Masonic Cantata Joseph der Menschheit Segen 
• Allan Badley
• Agency, Politics, and Opera Arrangements in Fanny von Arnstein’s Salons
• Nancy November
• Part Three: Performance and Agency
• Reflections on Aladdin’s Lamp: Developing a Framework for Creative Practice Research in-and-through Historically Informed Performance
• Imogen Morris
• When Your Heart Is Set on Both Broadway and the Met: An Exploration of Vocal Technique in Contemporary Musical Theatre
• Christopher McRae
• Part 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 Dunford
• Provincializing Practice: Parsing Historical Influences on Contemporary Cross-Cultural Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand
• Celeste Oram
• Contributors
• Index