Paul Dukas : legacies of a French musician
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33-27-1804
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780203701621
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138573246
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This co-edited book is the first collection to explore this musician, and notably to assess critically the legacy of his teaching, writings, compositions, and philosophical ideas. The book focuses on the concept of legacy, notably exposed in Part 2, which I led. Pertinent issues of Dukas’s Jewish faith, his approach to supporting diversity (notably his female students), and his views on collaboration, are key themes for his legacy. We co-wrote chapter 1, co-writing the first and last section and leading each on the two parts on criticism and legacy. The volume was developed from an international conference in 2015 which we co-chaired, during which time we issued a call for chapters specifying our focus, aims, questions, and reach, to ensure that we managed a coherent volume. The resulting book has two parts, in which we reflect on the different dimensions of legacy which are most pertinent to the reassessment of historical musicians in the age of a cultural and a translational turn in research. It develops recent thinking toward French (and European) music since the interwar period. There is no previous volume exploring these issues directly, in terms of French music of the period, and no prior collection on this musician at all. The field has often cited the writings and works of Dukas, but little had been done to reflect on the impact this musician had until now. This book changes this by engaging with his work across composition, teaching and writing, and by presenting previously unseen data drawn from archives and research done across the globe, though most notably in the Bibliothèque nationale de Paris. Primary source materials are utilised across the volume.
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