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E-book The Legacy of Elise Hall : Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and the Saxophone

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It was in November 2021 that we shared the intriguing idea of co-editing a book project on the historical figure of saxophonist Elise Hall. After sending several messages back and forth, we finally found a mutually agreeable time for a video meeting. Kurt was at his home in Brussels, while Adrianne was in Chicago, a sev-en-hour time difference. We had first met at a conference in 2016, “Prepositions in Artistic Research” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and instantly connected over our shared experiences as professional saxophonists and researchers; we were both working on doctorates at the time.1 When our meeting began on Zoom that day in the fall of 2021, Kurt shared his idea for a new edited volume that would bring a twenty-first-century perspective to the life and legacy of Elise Hall. We agreed to embark on this project that day, thrilled with the prospect of critically engaging with aspects of Hall’s life and career and excited to begin the journey toward a contemporary exploration that would traverse new avenues of inquiry related to Hall’s historiography and largesse.To commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Hall’s death in 2024, a modern approach to understanding her legacy forms the thread of this edited volume. This collection of essays is different from existing scholarship related to Hall because it is concerned not with the discrete history of Hall or the sax-ophone, but with the myriad questions raised from a constellation of factors surrounding this innovative musician, including topics relating to the era in which she lived, the instrument that she played, the music that she performed, and the culture of the time. Just as Hall traveled between Boston and Paris to create opportunities for performance and cultivate repertoire for the saxophone by engaging with European composers, we have embarked on a transatlantic collaboration to present a progressive reassessment of her life and career.To foreground the essays in this volume, we must first provide some histor-ical and biographical contexts for both Hall and the saxophone. The saxophone was officially presented to the public for the first time in 1841, by the Belgian inventor Antoine-Joseph (‘Adolphe’) Sax during the Industrial Exhibition in Brussels.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

780.904 BER t

Penerbit

Leuven : Leuven University Press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

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English

ISBN/ISSN

9789461665478

Klasifikasi

780.904

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Music Period 20th Century

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