Global Perspectives on Orchestras

Tina K. Ramnarine is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Following a career as an orchestral violinist she has held academic appointments in music and anthropology. Her research is based on social theory, performance skills and multi-sited fieldwork (including northern Europe, the Caribbean, India and Indonesia). She has published widely on music, politics and global challenges.

Contents

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Contributors
Introduction: Global perspectives on orchestras
Tina K. Ramnarine

Part 1: Community and Capital in Orchestral Contexts
Chapter 1: Cultural demand and supply in an imperial trading centre: developing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society Orchestra in the mid-nineteenth century
Fiona M. Palmer
Chapter 2: Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra
Henry Johnson
Chapter 3: Musical ambition and community-building in Trinidad and Tobago's steel orchestras
Shannon Dudley
Chapter 4: Steel orchestras and tassa bands: multiculturalism, collective creativity, and debating co-national instruments in Trinidad and Tobago
Christopher L. Ballengee
Chapter 5: Pioneering the orchestra-owned label: LSO Live in an industry in crisis
Ananay Aguilar

Part 2: Intercultural Orchestral Collaborations
Chapter 6: Voices on the wind: eddies of possibility for Australia's orchestral future
Samuel Curkpatrick
Chapter 7: The women's international gamelan group at the Pondok Pekak: intercultural collective music making and performance in Bali, Indonesia
Jonathan McIntosh
Chapter 8: Gamelanesque effects: musical impressions of Java and Bali in interwar America, Matthew Isaac Cohen
Chapter 9: 'Every town our home town': how a Finnish symphony orchestra collaborates with South Indian Carnatic musicians
Eero Hämeenniemi
Chapter 10: Orchestra and song: musical narratives in Tamil films
Mekala Padmanabhan
Chapter 11: The Hindi film orchestra: cinema, sounds and meanings
Anna Morcom
Chapter 12: Orchestras and musical intersections with regimental bands, black minstrel troupes, and jazz in India, 1830s-1940s
Bradley Shope

Part 3: Decolonizing and Postcolonial Orchestral Contexts
Chapter 13: Tiki Taane's With Strings Attached: Alive & Orchestrated and postcolonial identity politics in New Zealand
Oli Wilson
Chapter 14: State orchestras and multiculturalism in Singapore
Shzr Ee Tan
Chapter 15: The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain: examining the orchestra in its economic and institutional environments
Benjamin Wolf
Chapter 16: Orchestrating the nation: court orchestras, nationalism and agency in Vietnam
Barley Norton
Chapter 17: Orchestral connections in the cultures of decolonization: reflections on British, Caribbean and Indian contexts
Tina K. Ramnarine

Index