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- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 420 pages) : illustrations, music.
- Summary
- "In this volume, the first panoramic study of music in the apocalyptic mode, an international and trans-disciplinary array of scholars and composers explore the resonance of the ancient biblical Revelation of John across the centuries in musical works as diverse as El Cant de la Sibil·la, the Dies Irae, cantatas and oratorios by Bach and Telemann, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, African American Spirituals, Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Christian "ApokRock," Hip-hop, Grimes's album Miss Anthropocene, and the songs of Bob Marley and Bob Dylan. This innovative volume will engage scholars, students, and all those interested in the intersection of music, religion, history, and popular culture"--
- Series Statement
- Word and music studies, 1566-0958 ; vol. 20
- Uniform Title
- Music in the apocalyptic mode (Online)
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- Contents
- Part 1. Music in the Apocalyptic Mode. Dies irae, dies illa : Towards an Understanding of Music in the Apocalyptic Mode / Lorenzo DiTommaso and Colin McAllister ; The Medieval Song of the Sibyl : An Overview / Maricarmen Gómez ; Monks at the World's End : Performing an Eschatological Monasticism in the Twelfth-Century Ludus de Antichristo / Kyle A. Thomas ; Dies Irae : Origin and Appropriation / Martin Hoondert ; Mystical Unity or Earth-Shattering Events : Shifting Views on the End of Times in Compositions by Bach and Telemann / Markus Rathey ; Messianism and (Post-)Apocalypticism in Wagner's Ring / Christopher Kimbell ; Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten : Arnold Schoenberg as Apocalyptic Prophet / Colin McAllister ; The Apocalypse in African American Spirituals and Blues / Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska ; Apocalyptic Themes in the Music of Olivier Messiaen / Andrew Shentonvi ; In Search of an Apocalyptic Model for Western Art Music / Eric Simonson ; Apocalypticism in Search of Justice in Rastafari : The Case of "Ride Natty Ride" / Ennis B. Edmonds ; Tempest : Bob Dylan's Later Life Apocalypse / Andrew McCarron ; "Land of Confusion" (Genesis, 1986 - Disturbed, 2005) and the Contemporary Apocalyptic Shift / Lorenzo DiTommaso ; End-Time Lyrics and Music in Contemporary Christian "ApokRock" / Marcus Moberg ; Dies Irae, Dies Illa : Hip-Hop and the Apocalypse of Whiteness / James W. Perkinson ; Liberation Theology, Social Protest, and Apocalyptic Utopia in the Music of Northeast Brazil / Daniel B. Sharp ; Latex Apocalypse : The End of the World According to Grimes / Katrina Kardash -- Part 2. Composing in the Apocalyptic Mode. Aeneas in the Underworld / Christopher Adler ; Apocalyptic Time and the Time of APOKATASTASIS / Jon Forshee ; Music for the End Times : Wait...When? / Derek Keller.
- ISBN
- 9789004537996
- LCCN
- 2023007105
- OCLC
- ssj0002814562
- Title
Music in the apocalyptic mode [electronic resource] / edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso and Colin McAllister.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
Word and music studies, 1566-0958 ; vol. 20
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DiTommaso, Lorenzo.
McAllister, Colin, 1970-