Marktplätze · Kampfzonen · Elysium
107 authors, 421 contributions: The full spectrum of science journalism and music essayism.
A journey through time through musical life from the Middle Ages to the present.
A fascinating musical history of Europe - and beyond - from the Middle Ages to the present.
421 chronologically arranged essays on music, music theatre and musical life, written by renowned authors, scientists and journalists from a dozen countries: a richly illustrated compendium of well-founded and inspired texts on the multifaceted interplay of music and society.
Whether festive music of the Middle Ages or pop and love parades, drinking songs or operetta plush, troubadour or DJ, singing of synagogues or violinists of the Sinti and Roma, madrigal or riff, imperial symphony or folk music, opera house or YouTube, local art or stadium singing, heavy metal, Rap or cat music - music and society deals with the great wealth and poverty zones of the international music scenes, offers history and stories, interprets facts, theories and anecdotes, roams the known and the unknown to all developments and forms of playing the musical arts.
These were and are often integrated into the representation of churches, rulers, dictators and democracies. Often they accompanied their campaigns, but also served and still serve as a lament and resistance against injustice, oppression and war or egalitarianism and stupidity.
Whoever opens, reads, reads into the opulent and bibliophile volumes, reads firmly, will recognise: what a statement!
