[PDF] Music Society Agency eBook

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Musicologists have increasingly taken a wide-angled lens on the study of music in society, to explore how it can be intertwined with issues of politics, gender, religion, race, psychology, memory, and space. Recent studies of music in connection with society take in a variety of musical phenomena from diverse periods and genres—medieval, classical, opera, rock, etc. This ten-chapter book not only asks how music and society are, and have been, intertwined and mutually influential, but it also examines the agents behind these connections: who determines musical cultures in society? Which social groups are represented in particular musical contexts? Which social groups are silenced or less well represented in music’s histories, and why?

Author : Josep Martí
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527507416

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A society is the result of interacting individuals, and individuals are also the result of this interaction. This interaction happens through music, among other factors. As such, music constitutes a powerful resource for symbolic interaction, which constitutes the medium and substance of a culture. The importance of music in a society is clearly brought to light in the role that it plays in the three basic parameters of the social logics: identity, social order and the need for exchange. If music is so important to us, it is because, apart from its assigned aesthetic values, it fits closely with the dynamics of each of these three different parameters. These parameters, which are consubstantial to the social nature of the human being, constitute the core of the book as they manifest in musical practices. This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part of the book explores issues related to the social application of musical research. The volume brings together specialists from different academic disciplines with the same powerful starting point: music is not merely something related to the social, but rather a social life itself, something capable of structuring the social experience.

Author : Gerald Klickstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199711291

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In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden causes of nervousness and shows how musicians can become confident performers. Part III, Lifelong Creativity, surveys tactics to prevent music-related injuries and equips musicians to tap their own innate creativity. Written in a conversational style, The Musician's Way presents an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists.

Author : Elie Siegmeister
Publisher : London : Workers' Music Association
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Booklet presents Marxist interpretation of the development of European music, from the medieval period to the present. The Communist composer Alan Bush was President of the Workers' Music Association, which published this booklet.

Author : Robert S. Hatten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253038014

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In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds.

Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521627320

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The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays music as an influence on character, social structure and action. There have, however, been few attempts to specify this power empirically and to provide theoretically grounded accounts of music's structuring properties in everyday experience. Music in Everyday Life uses a series of ethnographic studies - an aerobics class, karaoke evenings, music therapy sessions and the use of background music in the retail sector - as well as in-depth interviews to show how music is a constitutive feature of human agency. Drawing together concepts from psychology, sociology and socio-linguistics it develops a theory of music's active role in the construction of personal and social life and highlights the aesthetic dimension of social order and organisation in late modern societies.

Author : Stephen W. Webber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780876391051

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The text and sound discs provide step-by-step instructions for using the turntable as a musical instrument. The text includes photographs, musical exercises, and a history of DJing and hip-hop culture.