Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770¿1860: Questioning Canons reveals how various cultural processes have influenced what has been included, and what has been marginalised from canons of European music, dance and theatre around the turn of the nineteenth century and the following decades.

1. The (Pre)History of Canons (Svein Gladsø); 2. Meeting the Masters: Repertory Choices for Young Ladies (Penelope Cave); 3. Canonisation of the Danced Minuet Over Centuries (Dóra Kiss); 4. On the Other Side of the Canon: August von Kotzebue as Popular Playwright and Controversial Public Persona (Meike Wagner); 5. Traces of Dance and Social Life: A Dance Book and its Context (Elizabeth Svarstad); 6. Outside Canon: Anonymous Music and Informal Cultural Activities in Trondheim around 1800 (Eva Hov); 7. A Private Playlist? Repertory in Norwegian Eighteenth-Century Musical Clocks (Mats Krouthén); 8. Itinerant Female Performers in the Nordic Sphere 1760¿1774: Traceability and Visibility (Anne Margrete Fiskvik); 9. The Hybrid Child: The Preconditions, Dissemination and Enduring Popularity of Equestrian Drama (Ellen Karoline Gjervan); 10. Vittorio Alfieri¿s tramelogedia Abele: A Physiognomic Reading of a Marginalised Play by a Canonic Author (Maria-Christina Mur); 11. Oehlenschlager¿s Freyas Altar: A Rejected Singspiel Performed (Annabella Skagen); 12. Forgotten Music: Early Norwegian Composers and Oehlenschläger's Freyas Altar (Randi Margrete Selvik); 13. Questioning the Canons of Ibsen¿s Theatre: Re-searching the Relevance of Ibsen¿s Theatre Repertory, 1852¿1862 (Jon Nygaard)