Abstract
The introduction to this forum highlights infrastructures as crucial, yet often overlooked, enablers of musical globalization from 1850 to 2000, facilitating the creation, transmission, and transformation of music across diverse contexts. By framing infrastructures as both material and relational constructs, we argue that they underpin connections between musical practices, genres, and institutions while also reflecting power dynamics and exclusions. Our approach underscores the indispensable role of infrastructures in shaping global musical exchanges and their historical trajectories.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editors' Forum: Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000; Guest Editors: Friedemann Pestel and Martin Rempe
- Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000: Introduction
- “This is How the Students Graduate!”: Cuban Conservatories as Infrastructures of Musical Globalization
- Copyright Societies and Musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Enduring Infrastructures in Times of Decolonization?
- Between Winning and Losing the Cultural Cold War – The Soviet Ministry of Culture and Musical Infrastructures During the Cold War
- “He is Not an Artist But a Trust”: Herbert von Karajan’s Global Career and the (A)political Economy of Classical Music
- Minor Infrastructures: Genre and Petroleum Politics in the Music of Grace Chang and Fela Kuti
- Epilogue
- Review Essay
- Pippa Biddle: Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism; Keri Vacanti Brondo: Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; Allison Schnable: Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editors' Forum: Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000; Guest Editors: Friedemann Pestel and Martin Rempe
- Infrastructures of Musical Globalization, 1850–2000: Introduction
- “This is How the Students Graduate!”: Cuban Conservatories as Infrastructures of Musical Globalization
- Copyright Societies and Musicians in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Enduring Infrastructures in Times of Decolonization?
- Between Winning and Losing the Cultural Cold War – The Soviet Ministry of Culture and Musical Infrastructures During the Cold War
- “He is Not an Artist But a Trust”: Herbert von Karajan’s Global Career and the (A)political Economy of Classical Music
- Minor Infrastructures: Genre and Petroleum Politics in the Music of Grace Chang and Fela Kuti
- Epilogue
- Review Essay
- Pippa Biddle: Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism; Keri Vacanti Brondo: Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef; Allison Schnable: Amateurs Without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion