Music As Social Life The Politics of Participation

Name: Music As Social Life The Politics of Participation
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ISBN: 9780226816982

ISBN-10: 0226816982

ISBN-13: 9780226816982

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas Turino

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People around the world and throughout history have used music to express their inner emotions, reach out to the divine, woo lovers, celebrate weddings, inspire political movements, and lull babies to sleep. InMusic as Social Life, Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the center of our most profound personal and social experiences. Turino begins by developing tools to think about the special properties of music and dance that make them fundamental resources for connecting with our own lives, our communities, and the environment. These concepts are then put into practice as he analyzes various musical examples among indigenous Peruvians, rural and urban…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Thomas Turino is Professor of musicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.



CD Track


List


List of Figures


Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Why Music Matters



Participatory and Presentational Performance



The Recording Fields: High Fidelity and Studio Audio Art



Habits of the Self, Identity, and Culture



Participatory, Presentational, and High Fidelity Music in Zimbabwe 6 Old-Time Music and Dance: Cultural Cohorts and Cultural Formations



Music and Political Movements



For Love or Money


Glossary


References


Annotated Discography


Index