We are delighted that house composer Sadie Harrison has contributed a chapter to Music and Heritage New Perspectives on Place-making and Sonic Identity, a forthcoming title from Routledge, in which she writes about the relationship between her twin careers of composition and archaeology. Entitled Composing archaeology: The problems of recreating heritage in music, the chapter considers the resonances between compositional and archaeological practises focussing on works written prior to and after her work as an archaeologist specialising in the Bronze Age prestige ware of the Carpathian Basin.
Sadie Harrison contributes chapter to Music and Heritage (Routledge)
22 October 2020
'Music and Heritage provides new thinking about the diverse ways people engage with heritage. By exploring the relationships that exist between music, place and identity, the book illustrates how people form attachments to place and how such attachments are represented by sound and music-making. Presenting case studies and perspectives from across a range of genres, the volume argues that combining music with heritage provides an alternative and productive opportunity to think about heritage values and place attachment. Contributions to this edited collection use a diversity of methods, perspectives, cues and genres to reflect critically on issues related to these and other interconnections in ways that encourage new thinking about the character, meaning and purpose of cultural heritage, and the various ways in which people can interact with it through sound - thus re-encountering the supposedly familiar world around them.Taking heritage studies, musicology and place-making research in new directions, Music and Heritage will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, history, music, geography and anthropology. It will also be relevant to those with an interest in how music relates to place-making and place attachment, as well as to practitioners and policymakers working in the planning, design and creative sectors.’
Music and Heritage is edited by John Schofield and Liam Maloney. Pre-order is available now for March 2021 delivery:
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