Cook, Nicholas - Music, Encounter, Togetherness

    Catalogue No: 9780197663981
    Product FormatBook
    AuthorCook, Nicholas
    £78.00
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    Pages568
    Publication Date29 August 2024
    ISBN9780197663981 (0197663982)
    EAN9780197663981

      Develops a relational approach to music, placing people at its heart
    • Offers a holistic understanding of the role of improvisation, performance, and textuality in music
    • Presents approaches applicable across a range of musical cultures and across the 'esthetic' versus 'applied' divide

    Modern Western musical thought tends to represent music as a thing--a pattern, a structure, even an organism--than as a human practice. Music, Encounter, Togetherness focusses on music as something people do, as a mode of encounter between individuals and cultures, and as an agent of interpersonal and social togetherness. It presents music as a utopian dimension of everyday life.

    Contents

    1. Acknowledgements
    2. List of illustrations
    3. Introduction
    4. 1: Socialities of music
    5. 1.1 A zone of magic
    6. 1.2 Webs of listening
    7. 1.3 Beyond participation
    8. 2: Performing togetherness
    9. 2.1 A readiness for human company
    10. 2.2 Networks of musicking
    11. 2.3 Musicking on paper
    12. 3: Dynamics of encounter
    13. 3.1 Rationalising music
    14. 3.2 Music and relational being
    15. 3.3 Dehumanising music
    16. 3.4 Hearing the call of others
    17. 4: Between Lucknow and London
    18. 4.1 Beyond suspicion
    19. 4.2 The dancing girl
    20. 4.3 Listening across cultures
    21. 4.4 The nabobina
    22. 5: Java comes to Paris
    23. 5.1 Anxieties of influence
    24. 5.2 Turning heads
    25. 5.3 Taking your memories home
    26. 5.4 Gongs in the Erard
    27. 5.5 How Debussy heard the gamelan
    28. 6: Music and modernisation in China
    29. 6.1 Visions of modernity
    30. 6.2 People's musicians
    31. 6.3 A national music
    32. 6.4 The future is China
    33. 6.5 Modernity with Chinese characteristics
    34. 7: Music in a cosmopolitan world
    35. 7.1 Shanghai then and now
    36. 7.2 Everyday cosmopolitanism
    37. 7.3 Mobilising music
    38. 8: Transcultural musicking
    39. 8.1 Imagining a new Australia
    40. 8.2 Beyond style
    41. 8.3 Virtual worlds
    42. 9: Other classics
    43. 9.1 Period remix
    44. 9.2 Modes of musical sensemaking
    45. 9.3 Vienna through the looking glass
    46. 9.4 Listening against the grain
    47. Afterword: On certainty
    48. References
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