Music, Society and Education

SMALL, Christopher

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

The Printed Word

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Pergamon Pr

Ariel like a harpy: Shelley, Mary and Frankenstein

Literature & Fiction

Victor Gollancz

The road to Miniluv: George Orwell, the State and God

Gollancz

Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening

Wesleyan

Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole."As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."

Music-Society-Education

Arts & Photography

Music

Riverrun Pr

large study of black music as means of survival

Music of the common tongue: Survival and celebration in Afro-American music

Riverrun Press

Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in Afro-American Music

John Calder Pub Ltd

Acclaimed scholar rethinks the nature and meaning of music.

Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (Music / Culture)

Wesleyan University Press

Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower. Using Gregory Bateson's philosophy of mind and a Geertzian thick description of a typical concert in a typical symphony hall, Small demonstrates how musicking forms a ritual through which all the participants explore and celebrate the relationships that constitute their social identity. This engaging and deftly written trip through the concert hall will have readers rethinking every aspect of their musical worlds.

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