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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778934403321

Autore

Sorce Keller Marcello

Titolo

What Makes Music European [[electronic resource] ] : Looking beyond Sound

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, 2011

ISBN

1-280-66992-6

9786613646859

0-8108-7673-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities

Classificazione

9,2

Disciplina

780.94

781.620094

Soggetti

Music - Europe - History and criticism

Music -- Europe -- History and criticism

Music - Europe - Philosophy and aesthetics

Music -- Europe -- Philosophy and aesthetics

Music - Political aspects - Europe

Music -- Political aspects -- Europe

Music - Social aspects - Europe

Music -- Social aspects -- Europe

Music - History and criticism - Europe

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics - Europe

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Who Makes the Music (Why We All Are "Composers"); 1 Composing as We Think of It, Composing as We Do It; 2 Oral Transmission; 3 Improvisation and the Collective Dimension; 4 When "We" Get the Music; Part II: Originality, Ideology, and Taste; 5 Should Music Be Original, and How Original Can It Be; 6 Why People Identify with



Organized Sound; 7 Why Is Music So Ideological; 8 How Can We Face So Many Different Musics; 9 Why Do We Misunderstand the Music of All Times and Places; 10 How Much of a Good Thing

11 Musical Gardens and Greenhouses versus Woods and PrairiesPart III: The Tangible Aspects of Music Making; 12 The Social Value of Music; 13 Musical Value and Its Locations; Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In What Makes Music European, Marcello Sorce Keller addresses the little-discussed matters that are essential to an understanding of how music intersects with the life of so many people. Readers are offered an approach for thinking about music that depends as much on its history as on the concepts and attitudes of the social sciences. What Makes Music European concisely demonstrates, to those familiar with Western music, how peculiar Euro-Western concepts of music app