2020/08/06 by Catherine Massip · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Influence and Diplomacy #Media, Communication, and Education #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Ephemera #Publicity #Subject (documents) #Plural #Newspaper #History #Art #Literature #Computer science #World Wide Web #Media studies #Art history #Sociology #Linguistics #Law #Political science #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190616922.013.8
openalex publication_date 2020/08/06 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Among the documents which give access to musical life and its various events, ephemera occupy a special field. The word (<italic>ephemeron</italic> singular; <italic>ephemera</italic> plural) covers several kinds of written or printed documents largely scattered but being produced for a short life and not subject to be handled and stored in a permanent way. “Those papers of the day” as defined in eighteenth century were produced on a large scale in the nineteenth century when newspapers became the major medium for publicity. The main purpose of these documents was primarily information and publicity. This chapter argues how ephemera may be read not as mere sidelines to culture but as central documents pertaining to the wide and complex intellectual issues in music.