Deranging the Senses through Space and Time: European Classical Music Festivals in the Twenty-First Century

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Abstract: In the postwar period, classical music festivals have increased in number and risen in stature as more marketable alternatives to traditional forums like local symphony orchestras and opera houses. In the summer of 2019, I visited three festivals to experience firsthand their interventions in redefining classical music today. Cloistered gardens, concert halls, and open-air plazas filled with audiences and music became my field sites, and I interviewed festival organizers, music critics, and audience members to interrogate what compelled their decision-making. How do festivals toggle between a universal ideal latent in classical music and the inherent particularities of the audiences, venues, performers, and histories that form their identities? How do they participate in the cultivation of refined aesthetic palettes in their audiences, while proselytizing classical music as an inclusive pedagogy that might bridge differences in class, language, and culture? In the first chapter, I consider how festivals are impelled to beget the new, that evergreen mandate for sponsors of the arts. In the second chapter, I question how festivals forward their own interpretations of place, one that is always necessarily a “meeting place” between local, national, and global identities.

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Date created	2020

Author	Liu, Jasmine

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tg942nn1419

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Preferred Citation: Liu, Jasmine. (2020). Deranging the Senses through Space and Time: European Classical Music Festivals in the Twenty-First Century. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/tg942nn1419

Undergraduate Research Papers, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.

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