Nationalism and Music

This ongoing project developed out of my work on Calixa Lavallée. It explores aspects of nationalism in music. Several publications have appeared so far. They include a more extended exploration of Music and Identity in the United Province of Canada

 

Publications

“Empire, Nation, and Music: Canada’s ‘Dominion Songbook.’” In Over Here, Over There: Music and The First World War. Edited by Gayle Sherwood Magee, Christina Bashford, and William Brooks. Chicago and Bloomington: University of Illinois Press (October 2019).

 

“What’s in a Song? For the People of Hong Kong, the idea of Nationhood.” Globe & Mail, Saturday, 21 September 2019. (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-whats-in-a-song-for-the-people-of-hong-kong-the-idea-of-nationhood/#comments)

[Review] Nation and Classical Music: From Handel to Copland, by Matthew Riley and Anthony D. Smith (Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2016). Music & Letters Vol. 98, No. 2 (2017): 294-6.

[Review] Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages, edited by John Bergsagel, Thomas Riis, and David Hiley (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2016). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol. 16, No. 3 (December 2016): 522-4.

Calixa Lavallée: L’oeuvre pour piano seul/The Complete Works for Solo Piano. Compiled and edited by Brian C. Thompson. Vancouver: The Avondale Press, 2016. 144 pp.

Anthems and Minstrel Shows: The Life and Times of Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891). Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. 523 pp.

 

“Zhao Jiping and the Sound of Resistance in Red Sorghum.” Studia Musicologica Vol. 56, No. 4 (2015): 185-96.

 

“Opera Production and Civic Musical Life in 1870s Montreal.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review Vol. 11, No. 2 (December 2014): 219-38.

“Theory, Nationalism, and Music.” In Politsci’13: Political Science in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and Impasses / Theorizing and Experiencing Politics. pp. 206-213. Edited by E. Zeynep Güler. Istanbul, Turkey: Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center, 2014.

[Review] Music, Emotion and Identity in Ulster Marching Bands: Flutes, Drums and Loyal Sons, by Gordon Ramsey (Peter Lang, 2011). Nations & Nationalism Vol. 19, No. 3 (May 2013): 595-6.

[Review] Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe, by Philip V. Bohlman (Routledge, 2011). Fontes Artis Musicae Vol. 59, No. 1 (2012): 86-7.

[Review] Music Makes the Nation, Nationalist Composers and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe, by Benjamin Curtis (Cambria Press, 2008). Fontes Artis MusicaeVol. 57, No. 2 (April-June 2010): 214-5.

[Review] Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations, edited by Athena S. Leoussi and Steven Grosby (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Fontes Artis Musicae Vol. 55, No. 2 (May-June 2008): 411-3.

[Review] The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History, by Philip V. Bohlman (ABC Clio, 2004). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism Vol. 4, No.2 (2004): 42-4.

 

Presentations

“Empire and Identity in British-Administered Corfu (1838-1852).” International Musicological Society Conference on Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans, The National University of Music, Bucharest, Romania, 2–6 September 2019.

“The Imperial Bandsman.” Agency and Identity in Music: IMS Intercongressional Symposium,  Lucerne, Switzerland, July 7–10, 2019.

“France, Music & War, as Read in the Pages of Le Passe-temps (1914-1918).” France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918, Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, 8-9 July 2018 (http://www.fmc.ac.uk)

“1917: ‘The Great War,’ Nationhood, and Music in Canada.” Panel: War and Its Effects, 43rd Annual Conference of the Society for American Music, Montreal, Quebec, 22-26 March 2017.

“Film and Traditional Music to ‘Serve the People and Socialism.’” War of Media – Media of War: The Importance of Music and Media for Propaganda in Times of Change, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria, 25-28 November 2015.

“Zhao Jiping and the Sound of Resistance in Red Sorghum.” Nationalism in Music in the Totalitarian State (1945-1989), Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 24-25 January 2015.

“Nationalism and Music: Theory and the Way Forward.” politsci’13, Istanbul University, Turkey, 31 October-2 November 2013. http://www.politsciconference.org/

“Opera, Education and Nation Building in 1870s Montreal.” 2013 meeting of the Canadian University Music Society, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 6-8 June 2013.

“The Politics of Scottish-French Opera (in 1870s Montreal).” 17th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 27-30 June 2012. http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/c19music/

“Music and the Fight Against Confederation in 1860s Montreal.” 2011 Conference of Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics, 5-7 April 2011.

“‘Federals and Confederates’: British Audiences and the American Civil War.” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 12-15 November 2009.

“‘Federals and Confederates’: The American Civil War as British Entertainment.” 2008 Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association. York University, Toronto, Canada, 31 July – 3 August 2008.

“Artur Schnabel in London (1925-1933).” Stifled Voices: Music, Oppression and Exile in the 20th Century, an International Conference presented by the Jewish Music Institute School of the Oriental and African Studies International Centre for Suppressed Music and the Institute of Musical Research, University of London, 9-11 April 2008.

“Schnabel, Beethoven, and the British Critics.” 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society. Zurich, Switzerland, 10-15 July 2007.

“Nationalism, The Arts and Identity in the Music Criticism of 1860s Montreal.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies International Conference 2006. The University of Durham, UK, 6-9 July 2006.