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Author(s): Joshua Billings; Felix Budelmann; Fiona Macintosh
ISBN(s): 9782013937375, 2013937377
Edition: online
File Details: PDF, 2.71 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 2013937377 
ISBN 13: 9782013937375
Author: Joshua Billings, Felix Budelmann, Fiona Macintosh

Choruses, Ancient and Modern examines the ancient Greek chorus and its afterlives in western culture. Choruses, though absolutely central to the social, political, and religious life of classical Greece, no longer hold the same broad importance in modernity, yet the attraction of the Greek chorus has proved a strong impetus to reimagining. Artists and thinkers have continually appropriated Greek choruses to their own ends, and the body of these engagements constitutes a rich and hitherto-unexplored area of the reception of classical antiquity. Exploring the choral tradition from archaic Greece to the present across a variety of different media, the volume thematically juxtaposes perspectives on choruses to create a dialogue between ancient and modern contexts.

Following a substantial introduction, the four sections of the book discuss the place of the chorus within scholarship, aesthetic and philosophical perspectives on the chorus, reflections on absences of the chorus, and the social and communal potential of the chorus. Each section considers antiquity and modernity in counterpoint, at once de-familiarizing ancient contexts of the chorus and defining crucial moments in modern choral traditions.

Choruses Ancient and Modern 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction – The Chorus Across Time
Defining the Chorus

Historical and Cultural Frameworks

Continuities and Transformations

Part I: The Chorus in Ancient Contexts
Chapter 2: The Greek Tragic Chorus
Origins in Dionysian Ritual

Role in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

Voice, Movement, and Function

Chapter 3: Comic and Satirical Choruses
Aristophanes and the Playful Chorus

Choral Interludes and Parabasis

Political and Social Commentary

Chapter 4: Roman Adaptations and Decline
The Chorus in Roman Tragedy

Seneca and the Philosophical Chorus

The Shift to Individual Voice

Part II: Medieval to Early Modern Revivals
Chapter 5: Liturgical and Religious Choruses
Gregorian Chant and Sacred Drama

Choirs and the Performance of Community

Allegory and Collectivity in Mystery Plays

Chapter 6: Renaissance and Neoclassical Reimaginings
Humanist Engagements with Antiquity

The Chorus in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Operatic Choruses and Musical Transformation

Part III: The Modern Chorus
Chapter 7: Romanticism and the Dispersed Chorus
Fragmented Collectivity in Poetry

Wordsworth, Shelley, and the Democratic Voice

The Chorus as Echo or Specter

Chapter 8: 20th-Century Theater and Political Choruses
Brecht and the Didactic Chorus

Collective Bodies in Modern Performance

The Chorus in Protest and Pageant

Chapter 9: Choral Poetics in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Experimental Poetics and Polyvocality

Choral Forms in African American and Feminist Writing

The Return of the Collective Voice

Part IV: The Chorus Today and Tomorrow
Chapter 10: Digital and Virtual Choruses
Online Communities and Participatory Performance

Flash Mobs, Viral Songs, and Virtual Choirs

Reimagining the Chorus in the Digital Age

Chapter 11: Theoretical Afterlives
The Chorus in Critical Theory

Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, and Collectivity

The Chorus as Method

Chapter 12: Conclusion – Why the Chorus Still Matters
The Chorus as Cultural Barometer

Voice, Body, and Assembly in a Fragmented World

Toward a New Choral Politics

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